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SPOKESMAN
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I REMEMBER MY FIRST MAC -
a MacII cx - 15Khz, 80Mb HD, 8Mb of RAM - and £3,800! My next was a MacIIfx - 80Mb HD, 40kHz (  ) and 16Mb of RAM - how much? - £6,900 - the most expensive Mac ever - in 1992 you really had arrived if you had one of those!
I still have two Mac II cx's - both with Rocket boards - to make em run faster!!
Never really had computers at school - I left in 1982, we did have some Sinclair ZX81s as well a a large box called a Business machine 380 or similar . . .
At college I used PC (early IBMs) as well the the mighty Mac II with a Robostik plotter and dual 800k 51/2" floppy drives - man we were flying then! Apart from that I did everything by hand - including rendering type and illustrations, those were the days! |
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SPOKESMAN
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| Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2007 8:10 am Post subject: |
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| SPOKESMAN wrote: | I REMEMBER MY FIRST MAC -
a MacII cx - 15Khz, 80Mb HD, 8Mb of RAM - and £3,800! My next was a MacIIfx - 80Mb HD, 40kHz ( ) and 16Mb of RAM - how much? - £6,900 - the most expensive Mac ever - in 1992 you really had arrived if you had one of those!
I still have two Mac II cx's - both with Rocket boards - to make em run faster!!
Never really had computers at school - I left in 1982, we did have some Sinclair ZX81s as well a a large box called a Business machine 380 or similar . . .
At college I used PC (early IBMs) as well the the mighty Mac II with a Robostik plotter and dual 800k 51/2" floppy drives - man we were flying then! Apart from that I did everything by hand - including rendering type and illustrations, those were the days! |
Also used an early Fairlight CVI - computer video instrument, the same as the famous Fairlight CMI, the worlds first really useable sampling keyboard. |
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MooseMan
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| Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2007 9:17 am Post subject: |
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| SPOKESMAN wrote: |
Also used an early Fairlight CVI - computer video instrument, the same as the famous Fairlight CMI, the worlds first really useable sampling keyboard. |
Wow! The only time I've been anywhere near a Fairlight (CMI) is at City University in London in '89 - I was still a student in Holland then. I've never heard of the CVI!
Funny, every generation of professional computer users has their own tall tales. For example, I was involved in porting the CARL Phase Vocoder (an audio processing Fourier transform app) to the Atari ST - which worked fine, at a processing rate of about 10ms per 5 minutes
My prof's reaction was: if you thought that was bad, I did the same at MIT in '67 - using punch cards.
His prof would probably claim to have done it on an abacus 
Oh yeah: my first MAc was the WONDERFUL SE/30
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SPOKESMAN
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| Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2007 11:19 am Post subject: |
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| Try programming a DX7 Moose - tricky . . . you'd love it. I still prefer analogue synthesis - I still have an SH-101 (Roland). |
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