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What was your first Mac? What Macs have you owned?
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I'm gonna blow some minds here, but my first Mac was an Atari ST. There was a great hardware/software hack called GCR, by Dave Small that used the Atari game cartridge port and a cartridge with 128k Apple ROM chip. (You were on your own to find someone with an Eprom burner to make the ROM chip for you). There was a floppy disk cable that allowed a standard floppy to R/W and format in the Apple format. If you had a hard drive there was a software hack that let you partition a portion of your hard drive in Macintosh format. The emulation was of a Mac Plus. This was circa 1985-6.

I was able to run the full blown Mac programs of the day, PageMaker, Illustrator etc. With Fontographer I could convert PC based fonts to Mac format (arrh remember DA Font mover?)

After that it was most every top end Mac from Centris 610 to PPC G-5 Dual.
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Re: What was your first Mac? What Macs have you owned? - by swampy - 03-09-2007, 02:22 AM

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