My Macs

I'm no switcher, so here's a timeline of the seven Macs I've had in my life.

1986: Macintosh Plus

Ok, it was my dad's. Or ok, it was his job's. But he kept it at home at times and it almost overheated (it had no fan!) when he covered it in his bathrobe to get the right feeling when playing Gato. As for me, I was in sixth grade and learnt to master Dark Castle.

1990: Macintosh Classic

A wonderful little piece that belonged to my whole family. I solved Deja Vu, Shadowgate and Uninvited on this one - all three insanely exciting MacVenture titles. I also learnt to program in HyperCard, the cool Mac app that was sort of exactly like the web and therefore disappeared as the web entered.

1994: Macintosh Performa 460

I bought my first own computer pretty late, at age 20 when moving to my own place in Uppsala. On the other hand, I bought it before I even considered buying a tv. This model was a consumer version of the LC III+. Not that enticing, but I bought it new, along with a modem with which I started to surf BBSes. Otherwise mostly Maelstrom, Tetris, Wolfenstein 3D and the fantastic HyperCard stack Beyond Cyberpunk which made deep impact.

1996: Powerbook 100

Everyone wanted to use my Performa as I moved into a hippie collective in a Stockholm suburb, so to get some privacy I bought this Powerbook 100 second-hand really cheap. I loved it! It was so basic and didn't even have a floppy disc slot - très modern! It was quiet and fast and I loved word processing on it.

1998: Powerbook 160

I had to upgrade to be able to use the new laser printer I had bought. I hated this computer. It lacked all the sleakness of the Powerbook 100 and it didn't have much more battery life. But also because I wasn't in the mood for buying a new computer - you have to be worth it by waiting some years in between. What an ugly piece!

2000: Ibook G3 bondiblue

Now we're talking. Once again second-hand. This computer served me well even professionally (even though that's hard to imagine now). I liked the roughness of it and once even strapped it on the back of my bike when I biked the 70 kilometers from Stockholm to Uppsala.

2003: Powerbook G4 12-inch

The second computer I bought new from the shop, this one at a staggering 25 000 crowns (3 200 dollars?) - it was the first generation right after its release. But it was an investment and the big sum was payed by the first layout job I did on it and uploaded to my client on the free wifi that I found in the lobby of Hotel Mercure Korona in Budapest. And I still have this little cutie! Judging from the timeline in the diagram I can soon upgrade with a good conscience though.

I love diagrams!

Stay tuned. :)