My dad had bought a Macintosh SE for around $2000 when he was the editor of a small newspaper and did desktop publishing with Quark Xpress. I couldn’t believe you could get software through the phone line. It had a modem and I still remember the utter thrill I had when after the usual whistling and buzzing a managed to download an actual small programme to run on my computer. I didn’t get a Mac at home until sometime in the early 1990s when I got a second hand Mac IIci. I had used CPM and DOS based PCs before but using the Mac was like travelling to another dimension, I was in love with the thing. I wasn’t the group page lay out worker so I didn’t actually use it during the working day but I stayed on after work most days so I could learn how to use it and learn Pagemaker and I fell in love with the technology. So we borrowed the money and bought a Mac II with a huge memory of 8 Mbt of memory, a LaserWriter, a big screen (CRT and the size of a small refrigerator) and Pagemaker software. I was part of a small design and print cooperative and we became convinced that desk top publishing was the future. If you have one of these and would like to get rid of it – let me know. There’s one Mac I really want to add to my collection as soon as possible: the iBook G3/466 Special Edition. I still think they’re beautiful little machines, and would love to have the ultimate G4 iMac.Īfter that first iMac, I owned several Macs – an original iMac, a PowerBook G4 15″, a PowerMac G4 dual 450Mhz, a Cube, my current iMac from 2012, and my favourite, a 12.1″ iBook G4. In my view, the most beautiful design the iMac ever had, but mine eventually died of a logic board failure within a few years (a notorious problem). In any case, I was intrigued, and eventually bought an iMac G4 800Mhz.
Back in those days – around 2002-2003 – the Mac was virtually non-existent here in The Netherlands (or at least in the area where I lived), and the only place I’d ever seen Macs was at the dental department. For me, it was a computer I had saved up for for a long time. This 30-year timeline celebrates some of those pioneers and the profound impact they’ve made.Īpple is also asking what your first Mac experience was. It launched a generation of innovators who continue to change the world. Thirty years ago, Apple introduced the Macintosh with the promise to put the creative power of technology in everyone’s hands.
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