Twitterers remember their first Mac

Meanwhile, Microsoft is reporting losses and layoffs. Take notes Microsoft.

"Twitter-ers"? Umm.... Can we say "tweeps" instead?

kthxbai

The confusion of the Apple II with the Macintosh could be tied to a few things, actually. The biggest factor, would have to be later versions of ProDOS which (rather poorly) attempted to imitate early versions of the Mac OS on Apple II hardware. (Especially on the Apple IIgs...)

Also, depending on what apps you could afford, there were a few of them out there that supported mice even on the early Apple II's such as the II+ and IIe. I had a brief experience with a CAD program running on a IIe that used one of those really bulky mice similar to what the first Macs shipped with. Felt very "hacked" together compared to a true Mac running MacDraft.

I meant to say non twits unite.....
now who's the twit??

i dont get or do Twitter either, non twits unit!
My first Apple experience was a mate who was loaded had an Apple II with a, green monitor and a disk drive i remember thinking it was the coolest computer, real keyboard, disk drive and games!! no idea when but this was in South Australia and the C64 wasnt out yet, then after that my first computer was a SInclair Spectrum 16K.. got it upgraded to 48K woohoo! tapes to load, we spent many saturdays typing games in out of mags or code books only for it not to work, hours of coding and nothing, pooey! but the games were ace, even if i had to get them in the post from the UK... i knew i should have gotten a C64

read through some. wasnt really that fun as you promised. and i couldnt really see how apple had shaped their lives from those messages. i do really hope it isnt so, that apple hasnt, because that would be sad.

First Mac: late 2007 white MacBook. Probably won't be buying one again. Topcase cracked and fell apart. Got a warranty replacement. Cracked again and now out of warranty. Three stuck pixels on the screen in VERY obvious places, again, out of warranty. Fantastic OS, but the build quality sucks.
It's been completely replaced by my OSX running MSI Wind.

Ouch... long long ago, my first Apple. Well, actually, my 2 year old MacBook Pro is my first real Apple. But back in ehrm.... 1981? I had my first Apple clone, the Che-1b, which is a package of materials which you have to assemble and solder yourself and will eventually lead to an Apple ][ clone. Of course with CP/M (Z80) card, extra memory card (1 MB, wow) and harddisk (20 MB, really wow). Of course I had made some soldering errors so when turning the thing on the first time some parts just exploded. Others burnt silently. After some weeks of bughunting the thing worked well and did work for quite some years. My first experience with Microsoft was on this computer, with Word on which I wrote some computer books.
Good old time :-) But then I got into the IBM PC scene and only got out of it about 6 or 7 years ago with Linux and since 2 years back to Apple. No regrets :-)

Twitter is an incredibly stupid place to do this. Not enough space to write anything even remotely interesting or meaningful.

My first Apple was an Apple II which I obtained years after its prime. Even though it was old & slow I ended up using it a lot more than my PC. The software selection on the Apple II was fantastic. I only gave in and upgraded when I got a good deal on an Atari ST. Wanted a Mac but it was too expensive at the time.

My first Mac was a G4 tower, also bought a couple years past its prime, which replaced a much faster PC. Same situation... it was an older machine but it had much better software. My PC started getting used less often until it was a glorified gaming console.

Then Apple announced the move to Intel and I built a Hacktinosh based off the original Intel Developer Kit. Used that until they announced the MacBooks. Added an iMac a couple years ago. Moved to a 17" MBP recently.

Had to go back to the Hackintosh for my desktop though. Octo-core Xeon built for less than half the price of the Mac Pro. (sorry Apple. I'll pay more to use OSX but not THAT much more)

Macintosh SE for me... I'm considering buying one if I see it for a decent (cheap) price, just to have as a reminder.