{"id":1303,"date":"2014-01-24T08:44:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-24T16:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2014\/01\/24\/happy-birthday-mac\/"},"modified":"2017-04-27T11:06:23","modified_gmt":"2017-04-27T18:06:23","slug":"happy-birthday-mac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2014\/01\/24\/happy-birthday-mac\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday, Mac!"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>Today the Mac computer turns 30 years old \u2014 I can hardly believe it, especially since I’ve had Macs for about 28 of those years. The photo here is of a Mac Plus, which is what I had then. The very first Mac wasn’t as powerful as this one. LOL!<\/p>\n

Why did I decide on a Mac, rather than the more common IBM-types of the day? There were a couple of reasons. First, I was teaching French in those days, and typing in French required special software on the IBM clones; on the Mac, foreign-language support was built right in. And then, who could resist that adorable little trashcan for getting rid of things you no longer needed? \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

I became pretty proficient on my Mac Plus, with the result that my school district sent me to tech training so I could do repairs in our small town, eliminating the need to send machines away to be fixed. I worked on Apple IIs right up through the Macs that came along. Because I’d learned how to do that, I was able to upgrade the RAM on my Mac from 1MG to a whopping 4MG \u2014 the maximum possible!<\/p>\n

My first hard drive was 20MG, and I explained to my husband that I’d never<\/b> need anything larger, because who could possibly fill up something that big? Oops. No one could have guessed that we’d be dealing in gigabytes and terabytes now.<\/p>\n

I’m still a “Mac person” all these years later; I’m on my eighth or ninth Mac (I can’t remember exactly!) now \u2014 a Retina MacBook Pro \u2014 and have added iPhones and iPads along the way. A few years ago I even convinced my husband, who isn’t interested in technology, to get his own Mac.<\/p>\n

Happy birthday, Mac!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today the Mac computer turns 30 years old \u2014 I can hardly believe it, especially since I’ve had Macs for about 28 of those years. The photo here is of a Mac Plus, which is what I had then. The very first Mac wasn’t as powerful as this one. LOL! 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