About This Particular Macintosh 6.04 - eDisk

Columns: Into the LightSlices From The Macintosh LifeSegmentsBY BROOKE SMITH, BSMITH@ATPM.COMInto the Light: From PC to MacI love my Mac. In fact, I couldn’t survive without it. Take the heat from my apartment, takethe clothes off my back, but please don’t take my Mac.I didn’t always feel this way, of course. I was a die-hard PCer back in 1990, when I bought myfirst computer—an 8086 IBM clone. It was slow, but it processed those university essayswithout a quibble.I continued to process more words with the clone, eventually upgrading to a 386. I livedthrough MS DOS, Windows 3.1, and even started up Windows 95. But my PC days shutdown when I bypassed Windows 98, and, in November of that same year, saw the light andinvested in a beige G3 Macintosh. Apple 1 had tempted me.How I saw the light, I can’t truly recall—it remains shrouded in mystery. I was definitely inthe market for a new computer; my PC had come crashing down with the monkey virus,and like all computer junkies I wanted a faster machine. I didn’t really want to think different(I wasn’t even aware of Apple’s slogan), but I guess I thought it wouldn’t hurt to try a differentbrand. Hey, why not?It’s not that I loathe the PC—I learned HTML on a PC, and my Mum has my old 386 (sansvirus), which I still use when I visit—but I certainly have not been amused that PCs getmany more viruses than Macs, and have many more buggy programs, such as Windows. (Ilaughed out loud in the SouthPark movie when Bill Gates was shot because Windows wasn’trunning up to scratch.)1. http://www.apple.comATPM 6.04 ← 37 →Columns: Into the Light