{"id":50671,"date":"2024-01-24T09:59:13","date_gmt":"2024-01-24T17:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=50671"},"modified":"2024-01-24T09:59:13","modified_gmt":"2024-01-24T17:59:13","slug":"my-first-mac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2024\/01\/24\/my-first-mac\/","title":{"rendered":"My First Mac"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Apple Macintosh, lots of people on Mastodon are posting their <a href=\"https:\/\/tenforward.social\/tags\/MyFirstMac\">#MyFirstMac<\/a> stories. Of course this is something I&#8217;m going to join in on!<\/p>\n<p>My first Mac was a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Macintosh_Classic\">Macintosh Classic<\/a>. Saved up and bought it myself for my senior year of high school. Got the very lowest entry-level version: 1 MB of RAM, <em>no<\/em> internal hard drive. Booted it up off of one 1.4 MB floppy; a second 1.4 MB floppy had Microsoft Word 4 and every paper I wrote for school that year. Lots of disk swapping!<\/p>\n<p>Since then:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Macintosh_IIvi\">Performa 600\/IIvi<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Power_Macintosh_6100\">PowerMac 6100<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Power_Macintosh_6500\">PowerMac 6500<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/IMac_G3\">Original Rev. A Bondi Blue iMac<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Power_Macintosh_G3\">Blue and White G3<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Power_Mac_G5\">Dual 2.0 Ghz PowerMac G5<\/a> (the original cheese grater)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/everymac.com\/systems\/apple\/imac\/specs\/imac-core-2-duo-3.06-27-inch-aluminum-late-2009-specs.html\">27&#8243; iMac<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/everymac.com\/systems\/apple\/imac\/specs\/imac-core-i5-3.5-27-inch-aluminum-retina-5k-late-2014-specs.html\">27&#8243; Retina 5K iMac<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mac_Mini#Apple_silicon_(2020%E2%80%93present)\">M1 Mac Mini<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/MacBook_Air#M2_(2022)\">M2 MacBook Air<\/a> (my current computers)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Happy 40th birthday, Mac!<\/p>\n<p>More rambling about my digital life in this <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/06\/01\/newly-digital-back-in-the-day-redux\/\">Newly Digital (Back in the Day, redux)<\/a> post from 2003.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Apple Macintosh, lots of people on Mastodon are posting their #MyFirstMac stories. Of course this is something I&#8217;m going to join in on!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2039,2043],"tags":[5860],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50671"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50671\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}