Happy Birthday to Mac OS X!

My first OS X was Tiger 10.4.6, which I installed on my Hackint0sh =o)

I too got the original Public Beta for my B&W when it came out freshman year. And to this day, I still use the B&W (with heavy upgrades) as my sole Mac. I used to rag on my PC friends for not being able to run two operating systems (X & OS 9) AND run Windows via Virtual PC. All in good fun though. :)

What I really miss about those days was Connectix Virtual Gamestation. What I wouldn't give for an OS X Universal Binary port of that now. Ah...good times, good times.

I wish they'd kept the packaging theme from Jaguar. Although I think the others are great, it and Panther's really stand out. I hadn't even heard of Mac's when most of these were around, my school was running Acorns and BBC Micros. Those were the days.

1983: Coleco Adam - Dismembered
1985: Apple //e - Sold
1988: Laser 128 (Apple //c clone) - Sold
1990: Beige Box i386 33 MHz (DOS 5 / Windows 3.0) - Died
1994: Beige Box i486 100 MHz (Windows 3.0 / OS2 Warp / Win95) - Died
1998: Beige Box P2 233 MHz (NT 4.0 / Linux) - Died
2001: Beige Box Athlon 1400 Mhz (XP / 2003 / Linux) - Almost dead
2004: iBook G4 (Panther/Tiger) - Sold
2006: MacBook Core Duo (Tiger/Leopard/XP) - My current computer

I have seen previous version of Mac OS's with friends Macs. Was not so impressed and sticked with XP and Ubuntu. When I saw Leopard at the iStore and then played with it, I switched.

Public Beta on an original bondi blue iMac. What a horror show that was. Mac OS X has come a long way since those days.

The first shipping product to ever be called OS X was OS X Server 1.0. It had the Rhapsody interface that was a meld of NeXt and OS 9. I only used it very briefly. I was sooo glad when OS X Beta came out with the new UI.

OS 9 :)

I ran the beta on my G4 400 mHz tower when it first came out. I added an extra hard drive to it so I could boot from it and not screw up my HD with OS 9 on it. I upgraded that machine with a faster video card, processor and memory from Other World Computing. It's run every version of OS X except 10.5. It's still my media server at home.

My current machine is an '06 MacBook Pro running 10.5.2

I like 10.4 the best. Don't like the new flat folders in 10.5.

I started with a Mac SE running 6.0.8. It originally had a 50 MB hard disk and 1 MB of RAM. I remember I paid about $350 to upgrade it to 4 MB of RAM so I could run MS Word and Freehand.

10.4 in September 2007 *feels embarrassed*

Oh well. In about seven years I won't feel so noobish to Mac :P