Happy Birthday Apple! (And OS X too!)

April, 02 2006 10:13 AM Filed in: Apple
Yes, I know I'm a day late.

I've been using Macs since 1993 when I purchased a Color Classic. A big thanks to my neighbor J.P. who was a student in my apartment complex and who introduced me to Apple. He offered to help me along in my first days as a Mac user. Had he not been there I would have likely purchased a Windows-based computer out of ignorance.

I still have that Color Classic and have since happily owned and used various Macs: Performa 6400, Lime Green iMac, Blue iBook, 2 White iBooks, G4 Tower (QuickSilver), G5 iMac, and my main computer as of now, a 1Ghz 12" PowerBook (my second 12" PB).

While I'm at it let me roll in an even later birthday to OS X which was rolled out five years ago on March 24, 2001. I started using OS X with the beta and switched over full time with 10.0. As much as I loved the Classic Mac OS, there was no going back once I had OS X, even the slow and somewhat limited 10.0. In five years Apple has done a fantastic job of consistently producing solid steps forward and 10.4 is a pleasure to use.

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