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Post by Garp {eng} on Jul 15, 2006 10:59:34 GMT -5
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RedRock
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Post by RedRock on Jul 16, 2006 1:43:58 GMT -5
Thanks, Garp, that's funny!
The Mac shown, by the way, is a G3 PowerMac (Generation 3 powerpc chip) "tower," quite old, actually, about 10 or so years old, a dinosaur.
However, without a doubt, it will dispense beer better than an old Windows machine of the equivalent age, of course.
And speaking of history lessons:
In 2002, I gave away my still-useful MacPlus (from 1985 or 1986, 1 Mb RAM and 8 GHz 68000 motorola chip, with 1993 4 Mb RAM upgrade and 25-MHz 68030/16-MHz 68882 math chip upgrade board, roughly 9 inch B&W CRT screen, with 2 800 K floppy drives and a 100 Mb external Hard Disk). This is the one I used to emulate a dumb terminal for the DEC mainframe, while also typing gazillions of reports over its life and "edutaining" my young kids; I didn't play games on it. The upgrade board made it run about 100x faster than it did orgininally in floating point match calculations.
My roughly 40 MHz 68040 Mac Quadra from 1994, the first for me with color monitor (about 15 in.), is in a box; it ran 5x as fast as the 68030/68882 combo of my previous Mac and was 250 Mb for the Hard Disk. It is still my favorite for playing Hellcats and Hellcats over the Pacific (WWII first person flying game), and it does just fine for faxing and printing lables through an Avery label printer, though internet email with attachments and on-line banking, etc. have nearly eliminated my need for mailing labels.
I didn't buy a G1 or G2 powerpc Mac.
My 266 MHz G3 (powerpc chip) iMac with 4 Gb Hard Disk (with roughly 15 in. color CRT and unknown tons faster than my 68040) is in a box; it was new approximately 1996, but it is still great for the little kids' software (The Treehouse, Sammy's Science House, Little Critter CD's, etc.), of which I have a ton.
My 500 MHz G3 iMac with 4 Gb Hard Disk (with roughly 15 in. color CRT) from about 1998 is still in use for simple internet, email, and word processing use, also some games (Duke Nukem, Deux Ex, Marathon), also iTunes, also as a DVD player, for when all my better machines are tied up.
My 1.25 GHz G4 iMac with 80 Gb Hard Disk (with roughly 17 in. flat screen color monitor and CD/DVD rw drive) from about Dec. 2003 is in use as a primary wife's and kids' word processing/internet/email/iTunes/MS Office document creation and printing machine.
My daughter's 1.9 GHz G5 iMac with about 200 Gb Hard Disk (with 17 in. flat screen color monitor) from May 2005 is her main squeeze for work and dorm entertainment for college and will be so for the rest of her undergrad and grad schools.
My 2.1 GHz G5 iMac from December 2005 (with 250 Gb Hard Disk and 21 in. flat screen color monitor) is my current work and game machine.
My next mac will be the 2.0 GHz G5 dual core Macintel iMac machine (running 2 to 3 x as fast as the 2.1 GHz single core), probably 20 in. flat screen color monitor, or whatever is the newest out then that I can afford.
Every new Mac has been heavenly--never a disappointment!
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Post by Lamron on Jul 16, 2006 3:14:56 GMT -5
Believe it or not, I still have a working Commodore 64. A couple of days ago I was in a patient's house and they were playing with an Atari 2600 !
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Post by Garp {eng} on Jul 16, 2006 8:21:26 GMT -5
Opps sorry red forgot the monitor   |
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A_ROOKIE
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Post by A_ROOKIE on Jul 16, 2006 9:06:48 GMT -5
they were playing with an Atari 2600 ! I still have my old 2600 and gets played to this day. Maybe thats why I know so little about computers. Change is bad. |
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RedRock
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Post by RedRock on Jul 16, 2006 18:41:27 GMT -5
The picture of another old G3 Mac being used as a trash can reminds me of the following, Garp. In the 80's when IBM and Microsoft first starting having to compete with Apple's Macintosh, OS, and peripherals, they refused to use the words that were already mainstream GENERAL computing terms due to the huge success of Apple: mouse was "pointing device," LaserWriter was "laser-based printer," and the desktop trash can was "the recycle bin." My, how things have changed in 20 years. Truly, imitation is the most sincere form of flattery, and on behalf of Apple, I thank you.
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Pvt._Michaels
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Post by Pvt._Michaels on Jul 20, 2006 13:57:49 GMT -5
Believe it or not, I still have a working Commodore 64. A couple of days ago I was in a patient's house and they were playing with an Atari 2600 ! I actually remember optioning my Commodore 64 to the max with tape and disc drives & best of all a 3rd party external card that allowed connection of a modem. SO, I had full color monitor, CompU-Serve account, graphics, email/chat, and gaming in 1983! Try remembering what a PC could do in comparison back then.....oh yeah...and I think it cost $199.00! Pvt. Michaels |
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