Comments on: Happy Birthday, to me. http://macdesktops.com/weblog/2008/04/10/10th-anniversary-submissions/ Happenings in, around and affecting MacDesktops. Inspired by my ridiculously long house foundation replacement project. Sat, 22 Oct 2011 08:58:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: JimmyJames http://macdesktops.com/weblog/2008/04/10/10th-anniversary-submissions/comment-page-1/#comment-455 JimmyJames Tue, 17 Jun 2008 09:25:19 +0000 http://macdesktops.com/weblog/2008/04/05/10th-anniversary-submissions/#comment-455 oops, just read that previous comment ...you're still ok ;-) oops, just read that previous comment …you’re still ok ;-)

]]> By: JimmyJames http://macdesktops.com/weblog/2008/04/10/10th-anniversary-submissions/comment-page-1/#comment-454 JimmyJames Tue, 17 Jun 2008 09:24:19 +0000 http://macdesktops.com/weblog/2008/04/05/10th-anniversary-submissions/#comment-454 Happy Birthday to you - mine is April 9th, so anyone born around that date is ok with me. I have an intel iMac ....I'm currently looking for a dekstop picture of the Sgt Peppers cover so I can put myself in there somewhere. Happy Birthday to you – mine is April 9th, so anyone born around that date is ok with me. I have an intel iMac ….I’m currently looking for a dekstop picture of the Sgt Peppers cover so I can put myself in there somewhere.

]]> By: Ryan Walker http://macdesktops.com/weblog/2008/04/10/10th-anniversary-submissions/comment-page-1/#comment-452 Ryan Walker Fri, 06 Jun 2008 23:25:53 +0000 http://macdesktops.com/weblog/2008/04/05/10th-anniversary-submissions/#comment-452 Linda, Thanks for your story (and your contribution). Just a little clarification, April 10th was the birthday for MacDesktops, not for me personally. My first Mac was a dual floppy SE with an external 20MB Jasmine drive. Over the years I had it, I upgraded it to 1MB and then 4MB of RAM and replaced the Jasmine with an 80MB and then a 105MB, each one filling faster than the one before. Oh, I loved that machine from 1986 until I replaced it with a used Mac IIx in 1991 or so. From there, I bumped up to a Centris pizza box (605? 610?) which I motherboard upgraded to the PowerMac on which I founded MacDesktops. Ryan Linda,

Thanks for your story (and your contribution). Just a little clarification, April 10th was the birthday for MacDesktops, not for me personally.

My first Mac was a dual floppy SE with an external 20MB Jasmine drive. Over the years I had it, I upgraded it to 1MB and then 4MB of RAM and replaced the Jasmine with an 80MB and then a 105MB, each one filling faster than the one before. Oh, I loved that machine from 1986 until I replaced it with a used Mac IIx in 1991 or so. From there, I bumped up to a Centris pizza box (605? 610?) which I motherboard upgraded to the PowerMac on which I founded MacDesktops.

Ryan

]]> By: mandolinda http://macdesktops.com/weblog/2008/04/10/10th-anniversary-submissions/comment-page-1/#comment-451 mandolinda Mon, 26 May 2008 19:03:41 +0000 http://macdesktops.com/weblog/2008/04/05/10th-anniversary-submissions/#comment-451 Happy belated Birthday to you Ryan! Personally, I hope you never step off your soap box. I appreciate your willingness to put yourself out there for what you believe in, even if I don't always agree (which hasn't been an issue, so far!). I hope you will indulge my reminiscing beyond 10 years -- my Mac experience started 6 months after the famous "1984" commercial launched the SuperBowl advertising fad. I had been a designer/typographer/layout artist for about 6 years, and the industry's fears of being phased out with the advent of computers on everyone's desk were being realized. However, when I met my first MacPlus, it was love at first sight (and I love the MacDesktop of the same name, btw)! I distinctly remember getting my first 20 mb hard drive -- I thought there was NO WAY I was EVER going to use up THAT much space!!! (Ahhh, innocence!) I struggled through a few years at a print shop, paying my "learn-the-technology" dues, and managed to land a job at a Mac-based software company. I bought my first Macintosh after winning a lawsuit against a drunk driver -- a $10,000 MacII with (whoo hoo!) 1 full mb RAM on board. After years of euphoria during the dot-com boom, the software company went belly up, and my MacII became an expensive doorstop. I bought a number of successively less expensive Macs; discovered the internet for myself and watched it grow into a paradigm shift for the species; founded my own company and saw it succeed, and then fail; and now I'm content to ply my trade of 30 years as a working stiff in a commercial shop. I enjoy MacDesktops on both my work machine and my iMac at home. I am making a donation to MacDesktops today (albeit just a small token of my appreciation) because I realize how much work this site is, and I want you to be able to continue. Times are especially hard for me (and everyone else) right now as I care for an ailing parent and try to maintain my fragile hold on my lifestyle, not to mention my equity. I have followed your blog and downloaded the desktops for years, and I hope you keep up the good work (and the soapbox) for many years to come! Cheers to you Ryan! --Linda Happy belated Birthday to you Ryan! Personally, I hope you never step off your soap box. I appreciate your willingness to put yourself out there for what you believe in, even if I don’t always agree (which hasn’t been an issue, so far!).

I hope you will indulge my reminiscing beyond 10 years — my Mac experience started 6 months after the famous “1984″ commercial launched the SuperBowl advertising fad. I had been a designer/typographer/layout artist for about 6 years, and the industry’s fears of being phased out with the advent of computers on everyone’s desk were being realized. However, when I met my first MacPlus, it was love at first sight (and I love the MacDesktop of the same name, btw)! I distinctly remember getting my first 20 mb hard drive — I thought there was NO WAY I was EVER going to use up THAT much space!!! (Ahhh, innocence!)

I struggled through a few years at a print shop, paying my “learn-the-technology” dues, and managed to land a job at a Mac-based software company. I bought my first Macintosh after winning a lawsuit against a drunk driver — a $10,000 MacII with (whoo hoo!) 1 full mb RAM on board. After years of euphoria during the dot-com boom, the software company went belly up, and my MacII became an expensive doorstop.

I bought a number of successively less expensive Macs; discovered the internet for myself and watched it grow into a paradigm shift for the species; founded my own company and saw it succeed, and then fail; and now I’m content to ply my trade of 30 years as a working stiff in a commercial shop. I enjoy MacDesktops on both my work machine and my iMac at home.

I am making a donation to MacDesktops today (albeit just a small token of my appreciation) because I realize how much work this site is, and I want you to be able to continue. Times are especially hard for me (and everyone else) right now as I care for an ailing parent and try to maintain my fragile hold on my lifestyle, not to mention my equity. I have followed your blog and downloaded the desktops for years, and I hope you keep up the good work (and the soapbox) for many years to come!

Cheers to you Ryan!

–Linda

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