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My first steps on a computer were made in 1983 on an Apple IIe,
a computer on which couldn't do much compared to today's computers.
Even there I was passing evenings - and sometimes the night -
working and debugging BASIC programs and doing all sorts of things
like gaming and trying to program with machine language. It was
very addictive.
Several years later, it became obsolete.
A couple years after that, around 1994, I had to buy a new
computer, a portable, for my job, but I had to buy a PC to be
compatible with the company's standards. What a boring machine! I
used it for the job, and that was it. The little flame of computing
inside me was dead - I thought!
Then a friend of mine offered me a free computer last summer,
his old LC 630 from 1994. I
accepted, but I was very skeptical.
I used it for four months; that was enough to revive my flame.
In October 2001 I bought myself a brand new iMac, and now it is half of my
life. I see no end to what I can learn or discover, thanks to the
user friendliness of the Mac and to the superb OS X.
If I hadn't used the old LC 630, I probably would have bought a
PC, but with no enthusiasm. I thank my friend every day for pushing
me in the fantastic world of Macintosh.
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