Re: Mac - before they went to Intel Chipset
By: August Abolins to Charles Stephenson on Sat Oct 26 2019 06:50 pm

I ended up with a iMac G3 (the all-in-one egg-shaped design) when the previous owner had a "forgot the password" issue, around 2010 (I think).

With some help from a fellow fidonet echo friend, I managed to get one of the earlier OSX OSes on it.

I remember when iMacs came out, it was a DREAM to own one! I went to grade school in Brooklyn, NY and one of my classes had a TSR-80, another had an iMac.
When I saw that, I KNEW computers would be in my future!
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Around 1984 I was walking around my College and saw a big glass room, full of keyboards and boxes with TV's on top of the, at least that's what they looked like.

I realised, this is the future, I had better learn to type, so I took typing in
a room full of women (felt wierd)I learned on those electric IBM typewriters.

I just recently sold my C64 stuff to pay for ham radio toys.

Cheers,
Alan

I am older now.

Re: Mac - before they went to Intel Chipset By: August Abolins to Charles Stephenson on Sat Oct 26 2019 06:50 pm

I ended up with a iMac G3 (the all-in-one egg-shaped design) when the
previous owner had a "forgot the password" issue, around 2010 (I think).

With some help from a fellow fidonet echo friend, I managed to get one
of the earlier OSX OSes on it.

I remember when iMacs came out, it was a DREAM to own one! I went to
grade school in Brooklyn, NY and one of my classes had a TSR-80, another had an iMac. When I saw that, I KNEW computers would be in my future!
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On Apr 21st 7:30 am Alan Beck said...

Around 1984 I was walking around my College and saw a big glass room, full of keyboards and boxes with TV's on top of the, at least that's what they looked like.

I realised, this is the future, I had better learn to type, so I took typing in a room full of women (felt wierd)I learned on those electric IBM typewriters.

*Smile*

I kind of had the same idea you had, 2 years later than you! I was a sophmore in HS and I took a typing class BECAUSE it was full of females! The computer class was next door, which I got interested in after thinking those were some cool 'things' to try out. :)



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