My First Mac

In Love With the Mac GUI

Ronald Buckner - March 2002

My first Mac was a PowerBook 145 with 4 MB RAM and a 40 MB hard drive. I had always used Macs at work, and I loved the interface. I had never used a Wintel machine.

I fell in love with the "look" of the Mac GUI. Only problem was, the PowerBook 145 was painfully slow.

Five years later I bought a Performa 6400/200 for $300 from my work. They decided to convert to Wintel machines, which sadly I have to deal with now.

I still was not satisfied with the Performa 6400/200. It is a good machine but not very upgradeable.

Imagine my surprise when PowerBook 100 Seriesthe computer guy at work said he had some old Macs in storage that he was giving away. Now I have a Power Mac 8500/180 with 136 MB RAM and a 4 gig hard drive (soon to be upgraded with a Sonnet G3 500 MHz card).

I love this machine. I know it is not the top of the line, but it is enough for me. I am running Mac OS 9.1, and I like it.

I do not need OS X right now. Maybe I will invest in a TiBook in the future, but right now for what I do with my computer the 8500/180 is just fine.

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