Here’s a look (thanks to “GUIdebook”:http://www.aci.com.pl/mwichary/guidebook/index) at the state-of-the-art OSes back when I made my switch to Macs (approx. 1992):
* “System 7″:http://www.aci.com.pl/mwichary/guidebook/interfaces/macos/macos70/macos70/desktop
* “Windows 3.1″:http://www.aci.com.pl/mwichary/guidebook/interfaces/windows/win31/win31/desktop
Dad brought a loner “Powerbook 180″:http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/powerbook/stats/mac_powerbook180.html home about the time they were drawing up the blueprints for their current New Pal residence. This was before corporations started standardizing on Windows, but most of the laptops he’d brought home before that had been PCs running DOS.
I thought the whole Mac thing was pretty silly, and it was apparently only used by graphic designers and other wusses who couldn’t handle the coolness of DOS. But I was bored, so I started playing around with it. It had a drawing program called “MacPaint”:http://home.pmt.org/~drose/images/aw/ss-mac/macpaint19.gif (MacDraw?) so I set about reproducing the front elevation drawing of the house. Elevation drawings in blueprints are the drawings that show what the building will look like from a particular side, so I was basically drawing what the house would look like from the front.
It turned out good enough that Mom and Dad used it to get a better idea of what certain color schemes and other decor changes would look like. I wish I still had a copy of that drawing; I had stumbled across something I loved doing. After that experience, I was hooked–both on Macs and on graphic design, and I haven’t looked back.
February 10th, 2005 at 9:13 pm
Let this be a lesson to all that temptation is subtle at first. It seems like you’re just innocently having a good time making a drawing and slowly the turn to the dark side begins until before you know it you’re an addict buying mac t-shirts, abusing the mac website once or even multiple times a day, writing mac-propaganda, living in fear of light, selling your dog to buy the lastest mac product, rejecting your friends’ intervention, buying i-tunes like crazy trying to win that ipod and even saying its for your wife, and unable to even admit that you have a problem. Don’t let this happen to you, Don’t do Macs!
February 16th, 2005 at 4:43 pm
Selling the dog… Hmmm, that’s not a bad idea… Ella, come here girl!
February 18th, 2005 at 10:10 pm
You think I would throw away a memorable moment like this? No Way!! Now … if I could just remember where I put it. Might still be on the Mac - might be in our “home” file.