. | My First MacSince Third GradeJulie FugettMy Apple experience began in the 3rd grade with the
purchase (by my parents) of an Apple //e. I used Appleworks
for typing small things for school up until I was a junior
in high school (1994). I also played a lot of PacMan,
DigDug, Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego (quite
possibly my favorite game of all time!), Defender, and some
spaceship-shooting-aliens game that I can't remember. By fourth grade, I was learning to program in BASIC. When
I got to junior high, the teacher would turn me loose in the
lab to help the other students write programs in BASIC while
he went about his business. I can remember being an Apple evangelist even then -- I
was always arguing with classmates about the advantages of
the Apple over IBM PCs. And I was in the fourth grade. The summer after my junior year, my parents sold the //e
(sniff!) and got a Power
Macintosh 6100/60 -- and let me tell you, we were
cookin'! It had 8 MB of RAM, a 250 MB hard drive, and a
DeskJet 520 printer. I had the best looking papers in my
class thanks to that printer and Microsoft Works 3.0. For a
family Christmas present, we got a USRobotics Mac&Fax
14.4 modem -- wicked fast, lemme tell you -- and AOL. I was
one of the first people at my rural high school to have a
computer, and probably the first to have email. Once I got experience using the Mac, I was hooked. The
Windoze 3.1 machines at my school were (a) not hooked to the
'net, and (b) always screwed up. It seemed common sense to
pick the Mac over the PC. When I moved to college (University of Kansas) in the
fall of 1995, I didn't take a computer with me.... Fast forward to the summer before my senior year, when my
mother's school district is auctioning off its Macs and
getting Compaqs. Bad for them, good for me. I got a cute
little LC 580 that I have
upgraded, tweaked, and generally had a blast learning about
the Macintosh with. I also have a student job at KU's
computer center supporting a mixed lab of NT 4 machines and
Macintoshes, which I really enjoy. I am also the "tech
support" for my mixed platform family. You know, in retrospect, I'm glad my mother always said,
"No, we're not getting a (insert popular video game system
here). We have the computer." - To be yourself, in a world that tries, night and day,
to make you just like everybody else - is to fight the
greatest battle there ever is to fight, and never stop
fighting. - e.e. cummings
My First Macintosh- A rescued Fat Mac, Jonathan Wise,
3/6/2000
- A boy and his Mac, Glenn Dawes,
3/1/2000
- Absolutely essential, Hans
Echterbecker, 2/22/2000
- The long and winding road, Mike Butler,
2/15/2000
- A knowledgeable Mac bigot, Kevin
Thomas, 2/8/2000
- Lucky Me!, Richard J.E. Dalziel-Sharpe,
2/1/2000
- Hooked on Macs, Jay Patel,
1/24/2000
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