25 years of Macs

The Mac is 25 years old. Feeling wistful, over the fold, are pictures of Macs I have owned. Turns out there are quite a few. And we wont mention the period 1999 to 2006 where I owned some PCs.

Original Mac — Technically, my parents owned this one: an original Mac with 128k memory and a floppy disk drive. Best moment: only 100 paragraphs allowed in each MacWrite document.

Mac SE/30 that I bought at graduate school at Stanford. Notable for its 30MB (yes really) hard drive.

Upgraded to the Centris 650 which had a colour screen.

PowBook 520c — My first lap top: a PowerBook 520c. Had a touch pad controller.

My first computer out of graduate school: A PowerMac 8100 with what seemed enormous then, a 20 inch monitor. Had more depth than breadth

LC575 — This was my first home computer. Horrible thing really.

My first "ARC grant" meant a new computer in 1997 with a PowerMac 9500. This one had an Intel processor in it and you could switch to Windows running Windows '95. That never really worked.

Got a 2nd Gen iMac for home. Best thing ever.

With this MacMini still plugged into the TV.

Later on, the laptop was back with a new MacBook Pro 15"

Another successful grant meant 8 cores of MacPro in the office.

And, finally, this MacBook for good measure.

4 thoughts on “25 years of Macs”

ah, the culprit.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_waste

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Oh, no no no. Every single one found an RA, child or junior colleague. Some from 10 years ago are still in use.

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I can believe it. My parents’ 512k lived a decade and a half before it blew smoke and died. Pity my MacBook’s screen flickers, despite three replacements.

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