After 40 years, I’ve left my Windows PC.
I’m no stranger to Macs. Over the past 40 years, I’ve used Macs off and about five years ago, I moved my music production to the platform. But up until recently, email, writing, spreadsheeting, and everything else were all done in Windows.
However, thanks to one app, I was finally able to cut loose the Redmond giant’s pride and joy. The Mac is now my daily computer, and it’s taken me about four decades years to get here. And as I look back on my journey to the Mac, it’s been a long, strange trip, and I thought I’d document it here. My trip began long ago, in the age of the original Apple computer… [queue the time travel effects].
1970s: An early bite of Apple
Yes, I said the original Apple computer, not the Apple II, which is the fruity-labeled computer that most people of similar experience visualize. It’s the one I had my first experience with a computer. I still remember entering a darkened room with an Apple motherboard laid out on a workbench, outputting to a bare CRT. I thought it was one of the coolest things I’d ever seen.
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