The sordid past of Mac OS X

I remember playing Bugdom on my Dad's iMac G3 (grey) when I was younger. I don't remember HOW young but I think I must have been 10, 11 or 12. That was an awesome game.
Then I used iMac G3s (OS 9) at school with an application called "Amazing Animation". I swear I used to just think they were big toys and not proper computers!
My Dad then got an iBook G4 (with Tiger) when he moved and I used that once or twice when I visited him, which was cool. Then I used some Mac Minis and school for a while before I finally got my Alum iMac in August 07, which came with Tiger (now running Leopard). Never had an iPod until then - was waiting until I got my Mac. Now I have an iPhone 3G too. I think I'm in the anti-halo!

I'm another one who grew up with the various OS through the years. Our first was a Mac SE when I was 5 or 6, then we had the Performa (ooh! color!), then my beloved purple iMac DV (with a few others in there, I'm sure).

Even having grown up with Macs, I will never forget the awe and amazement I felt at using OS X on my new iMac G4 (the iLamp). It was just... amazing! iLife and all of the software also blew me away. Even better, I could still play all of my OS 9 games, like my beloved Civ II, on the "Classic" environment. Oh, if only we could still do so!

Ran through a lot of Macs so far, never could get myself to purchase a wintel. Started at the Plus, Performa 410, Performa 630, PM 6100, PM 7300, PM AGP 400, PM AGP 500, PB Pismo, PB Titanium, iBook g4, PB Aluminum, Intel Mac Mini...I think that's all of them, but not for sure...Holding out on that new MacBook Pro for my MBA graduation present to myself...Added OSX Public Beta to my Pismo and AGP 400, ran flawlessly (pretty much). Big difference from by start at system 6.0.4.

Still run the AGP 400, AGP 500, Pismo, aluminum and mini every day.

I had an original macintosh, from 84.

Then went msx , amiga and pc for years, until the centris. Then the powerpcs.

Years linux only, and then a g3 with os 9. An Ibook with os 9, and then years linux only again, to get a macbook with tiger.

My first computer was a Mac SE, 20MB HD and a floppy, I had been using a Mac Plus at work off of floppies. System 2 or 3, I think.

So I never owned a PC!

Mac SE
Performa 5200CD
iMac (gray DV model)
G4 MDD dual 2.0 gig
MacBook Core Duo 2.0

Sold the MDD last year for $600, including a license and disk for Tiger.

Do desktop support for Uncle Sam on Windows boxes. Pays the bills.

First Mac OS was 1.1g off a single floppy on a Mac 128k.I had a case for it and would ride my bicycle through the rain and snow with it hanging off my back.

Got real interesting when I got a Plus and added a 20Meg HyperDrive.

Didn't even try with the Mac II.

I remember how mad I was when Apple started charging for the OS. Still am. Grrrr.

I started with System 6, and I'm only 24 so I practically grew up on the Mac OS. It's crazy to see how far it's progressed, but I always reminisce about the older days of System 7.5.3 or the joy the day I upgraded to Mac OS 8...

Oh the days of the 128K Mac and up! I brought a 128K Mac in 1985 and upgraded to a Plus. Molded inside of the Mac case were the signatures of the creators of the Mac. At work at the time we were using IBMs with MSDOS so brought in the Mac to show how the graphics programs worked drawing the picnic table under the tree. It blew the IBM gurus away.

Thank you Aron for the post & thank you everyone else for the post and comments. Also to answer the question, yes I will be adding "Snow Leopard" to the article as soon as I can.

Glad to see that everyone has enjoyed this article.

Thanks !!

ZOMG Thankyou for saying "oh ess ten." It always bugs me a bit when people say "oh es ex" because "ex" is a letter, whereas the character in name of the OS is a roman numeral. We don't says "World War eye eye," we shouldn't say "oh ess ex."