{"id":925,"date":"2014-01-24T10:16:42","date_gmt":"2014-01-24T17:16:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.coastalvectors.com\/blog\/?p=925"},"modified":"2015-01-16T15:39:52","modified_gmt":"2015-01-16T22:39:52","slug":"happy-30th-macintosh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.coastalvectors.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/happy-30th-macintosh\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy 30th, Macintosh!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Happy birthday, Macintosh. Macintosh has always been at the center of my computing experience. I grew up in a house that had Apple computers, starting with multiple Apple ][ computers. The first computer I remember using was a Quadra 700, though I’m certain that I spent time on multiple Macintoshes as child prior to that in 1991.<\/p>\n

I vividly remember when Dad upgraded to the Quadra 840 AV. We hooked it up to our Big Screen TV and used Speakable Items<\/a> for the first time. Due to the novelty of hearing the computer speak and respond to verbal input, it is something I will never forget. It reminded me of Star Trek, and as a child, I was convinced that speaking to a computer was be the future of computer-human interfaces.<\/p>\n

In the early days, most of my memories were of drawing and playing various games. We always had the up-to-date version of Photoshop growing up. I spent many ours with my friends manipulating photos, and drawing things. KidPix<\/a> was of course, also a favorite. I still have printouts on an old OCe Wax Color Printer of things I drew when I was very little.<\/p>\n

The games that made an impression on me in my youth were games like\u00a0Spelunx<\/a>, Spectre, the Manhole, and Shufflepuck Cafe<\/a>. Later on these evolved to Marathon<\/a>, and Escape Velocity which have been permanently etched in my brain as the gold standard of gaming. I used to spend hours with ResEdit making modifications to Escape Velocity. It was fun learning how sprites worked, and how to edit the game to make it different.<\/p>\n

\"PowerMac<\/a>The first computer I ever purchased was a G3 tower. A company that I knew of was closing, and liquidated all their assets, and I was able to snag the G3 for a mere fifty dollars. I saved up my money, and added RAM, upgraded the processor to a G4 clocked at 500 MHz, upgraded the graphics card, got a CD burner. It was an awesome machine! Around that same time is when I started using Adobe Illustrator, and got into graphic design.<\/p>\n

I was an early adopter of Mac OS X. I loved Mac Classic, and continued to use Classic application via the built in emulation offered by Mac OS X, however I found the public beta to be an amazing operating system. It seemed so advanced with its built in PDF engine, stunning visuals and fresh new look,and\u00a0 amazing multi-tasking to which I was not accustomed. It felt like a leap forward, and it was great! Additionally, the switch to a Unix based operating system afforded me the exposure to the command-line, for which I am now thankful!<\/p>\n

So, in short, thank you, Apple, for the Macintosh, and thank you, Dad, for exposing me to electronics, computers, and creative software when I was young!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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