![]() ![]() A Mac Mini, PowerBooks, iBooks, more various iMacs, and a few Power Macs. In the past couple years since then, I’ve gotten a few dozen PowerPC Macs. Shortly after college started, we came across a lot of 10 iMac G3 models of various colors on eBay that was local, so we bought them all, and I later sold some of the duplicates. Before college started, I had gotten an iMac G4 15” and an iBook G3 14”. It wasn’t until right before college and into college that I started collecting Macs more intentionally. During this time too, my dad got ahold of 2 iMac G3 summer 2001 models, Indigo and Snow, which he set up with network accounts for my sister and I to use in the basement, which I still think was a super cool of an idea for a family like ours. I remember fondly of wanting to upgrade it to Tiger so I could use Dashboard. I also began browsing the internet with this laptop, and I used the DVD drive to watch episodes of LOST before I was caught up to live television. ![]() She never really ended up using it, but this was around the time I had my own iTunes library, with an actual collection of music I liked, so I used this PowerBook to sync my iPod shuffle and iPod nano. In middle school, my dad came across a PowerBook G3 Pismo from work that he gave to my sister and I. After some time, these computers all were sold. This was now the computer I used with the few CDs I had to play music in my room. Eventually I came into possession of a tray-loading iMac G3 Tangerine. It had a black and white screen, and I remember playing various games on there, with the funky 1 row of arrow keys and the trackball. Not long after, I got my first laptop, what I remember as a PowerBook 140. I spent hours playing the Pokémon: 2.B.A. ![]() It let me play my games, and it played CDs, so the few CDs I had at the time could be played with the brushed metal look of the Apple CD Player. It was a huge computer, but I didn’t care. When I was about 7, my family got me my first computer of my own, a Performa 550. Later on, my family got an eMac, and then later an aluminum Intel iMac, which I used during high school, until I bought myself a MacBook Air 13”, which I still am using as my main computer. All the while, my dad was teaching me various things about using the Mac: What “Apple-Q” does, how to create aliases of my games so I don’t accidentally mess up the original files, how to change minor things with Terminal, and how the Mac OS X Server NetBoot works. When we got the iMac G3 for Christmas, it was used by me maybe the most out of the entire family! I played countless hours of Bugdom, Cro-Mag Rally, and other Classic Mac games of the time, like Pac the Man and Bub and Bob. It was my parents’ computer, and until we got our Grape iMac G3 DV, it was the only computer I ever used. I used my first Mac, a Power Macintosh 6500, when I was about 3 years old. My PowerPC Mac collection and fascination has gone back almost 2 decades at this point. ![]()
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