Mac Users of the Lounge

[DoctorJ]

Who used a Mac to get here?
Here's a place to meet other users and talk about Mac stuff!

 

["Skeet" McD]

Guilty as charged. And loving it.

"Skeet"

 

[Darhling]

Me too!!

 

[J. M. Stovall]

Me four!

 

[JupitersDarling]

Another Macaddict here!

 

[FedoraGent]

I have a Mac...

But as an Software/Systems Engineer, it's one of the 9 machines that I use. However secretly my Powerbook G4 is my favorite.

FG.

 

[Slim Portly]

Here's a place to meet other users and talk about Mac stuff!

A place to talk about vintage Mac stuff? [huh]

 

[HarpPlayerGene]

But as an Software/Systems Engineer, it's one of the 9 machines that I use. However secretly my Powerbook G4 is my favorite.

FG.

That really says something.

Yep, MacBook here.

 

[Miss_Bella_Hell]

I switched to Mac last year! <3

 

[Lily Powers]

Mac-attack here, too!

 

[JupitersDarling]

However secretly my Powerbook G4 is my favorite.

oh snap.
I gave my sweet little 12'' powerbook G4 to my mother when I bought myself a new macbook. I secretly regret it.

 

[Barbigirl]

Me too

It was a deal breaker.

 

[DoctorJ]

A place to talk about vintage Mac stuff? [huh]

When is "Vintage" in computer terms?

I got my first computer, a Powermac 7100 (System 7.5 ) in '93, I think.
It may not be very vintage, but it was beige with the rainbow apple logo.
I wish I hadn't got rid of it.

I saw the documentary "Welcome to Macintosh" a few weeks ago.... That movie is a treat if you're into old macs.

 

[Warbaby]

Another diehard Mac user since 1990. Everything else is poop (except maybe the legendary NeXT cube).

 

[Slim Portly]

When is "Vintage" in computer terms?

I got my first computer, a Powermac 7100 (System 7.5 ) in '93, I think.

I was asked not to resurrect an old thread about toys from our childhood, which in my case was a bit longer ago than 1993, because the focus of this forum is Golden Age, not just whatever we want to talk about.

Many online forums have “off topic” subsections to discuss subjects that have nothing to do with the main focus of the community. This forum does not. However we do have threads about modern movies, and modern guns, and cell phones, and verbal expressions that bother us... pardon my occasional confusion.

 

[Baron Kurtz]

Many online forums have “off topic” subsections to discuss subjects that have nothing to do with the main focus of the community. This forum does not. However we do have threads about modern movies, and modern guns, and cell phones, and verbal expressions that bother us... pardon my occasional confusion.

We're all confused. This "the thread is not vintage themed enough" is a relatively new phenomenon. The stance was/is necessary for dealing with some of the more "meat market" type threads that were emerging. But, as with alot of the other bartender powers, this is being over-used by certain bartenders (IMO).

bk

 

[stephen1965]

I have a mac. I have heard that the logo of the apple mac with the bite from it and which was sometimes in rainbow colours was done in homage to Alan Turing who committed suicide by eating a poisoned apple. Turing was about to be arrested or 'outed' or both as a homosexual. Is this common knowledge or more urban myth?

 

[scotrace]

Well, I take the Apple Kool-Aid via high speed pressure washer. BUT. This really isn't the sort of thread that works here and is better suited to a blog. Additionally, the Mac vs PC debate can get pretty rancorous.

(And I completely understand the confusion. I don't have an answer, but I understand)