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When did you get your first Mac?: IIsi - around 1990?

How many Macs do you own?: 10: Mac Plus (no mouse), Colour Classic, Grape iMac, G3 Yosemite, G4 Sawtooth, iMac (flat panel), iBook G4 12", mini (G4, broken), AppleTV, iMac (Intel 20")

Where do you live?: Canberra, Australia

I first started using a Mac in 1986 when the company I started working for had two Plus's and two SE's (with 20MB hard drives!) networked using something called TOPS and connected to a ... (wait for it) laser printer. I learnt how to use the Macs never having used any sort of computer before and became the office guru. I bought a Mac IIsi when they came out, and followed this with a variety of work loaned Macs up till a Quadra 840AV. Then there was the dark period. I started working for a company that was exclusively Windows and this was the around the time that Apple seemed to have completely lost its way. I bought a PC for home and gave away all my Mac gear - Apple scanners, Quicktake cameras, the IIsi, etc. but I kept my Newton MessagePad 120 and 2100 :) I passed up OS X intro for XP and it wasn't until I needed a laptop that I thought about getting a Mac again - the iBook with 10.3 turned me back around and was shortly followed by a Mac mini, then an intel iMac which is my main computer today.

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At 7:29am on April 19th, 2008, John said…: I like the "Macintosh Heaven" banner and logo.

At 6:42am on April 18th, 2008, James said…: You must be kidding about 30" displays and Mac Pros -- it will be many years before I would consider them cheap. I'm surprised what G5s like mine still get three years later. Too bad for us collectors that Macs keep their value for such a long time.