Linked by alcibiades on Wed 10th May 2006 19:40 UTC
I started out as a Mac user in about 1985 in a world which will be totally unfamiliar to almost all readers of OSNews. You wrote out your stuff by longhand, and a secretary typed it on a word processor. If you were lucky and able to manage it, you could dictate it. But you did not dictate into a dictating machine, because these were big heavy and expensive. You dictated it directly to someone who could 'take shorthand'. If you had a PC, it ran DOS. You looked for your files, and moved them around, started applications, one at a time, from the command line, and the command line was not pretty, it was green on black.
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I own a Dell Inspiron 5150, Apple Powerbook 12in, and a custom built Athlon 64 box, and a Intel PIV box. All of my X86 machines have or do run SUSE linux, and my powerbook ran Fedora 4 breifly. Overall I have to say that I like my little powerbook the best. Except for the screen it is probably the best built, most stable, and while it isn't the fastest machine it does get by fast enough. Now, XP is a world ahead of 9X, but it still can't stay up for 21 days straight like my powerbook and linux machines, and MAC still has more mainstream software then linux.