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 got my first Mac in '86 and I've had a bunch since (mostly refurbs) including a IIfx, a Cube, and a couple of clones.
When I got back into programming seriously (early 90's), Mac was what I had. I wrote a lot of shareware in 680x0 assembler, and was a major league Mac evangelist (5 years straight as a User Group president.)
Somehow things changed until it just isn't fun to be part of it any more. OSX was a major disappointment: my last fulltime Mac job involved porting to OSX 10.0 (neither my project, my development tools, or (realistically) the OS were really usable before 10.2.) Most of the new, hyped, 3rd party hardware and software turned out to be tenth rate and barely supported. Apple hardware quality has massively deteriorated in the last 10 years, and all the cool new technology (from Cocoa on)... it's hard to get excited about stuff I can't use because it supports the latest version of OS X only (a small part of a small market.)
I've had to work on Windows a lot to make a living, and I'm not a big fan of that either. Linux now has everything I need except a market for my work; if I didn't have to sell bytes for a living, I'd be perfectly happy there. When my G5 finally dies, I may be done with Apple too.