not mine, the school's:


• Mac 512Ke
• Mac Plus
• Mac SE dual-floppy

then I got my own, used:

• Mac SE (FDHD version with 40 MB HD)

and when it got old:

• Mac SE w/Applied Engineering board =
***40 MHz '030 SE with 16 MB RAM (in four discrete 4MB chunks)


that was one sweet machine with that accelerator in there.


• PowerMac 7100/80


and when it got old:

• PowerMac 7100/80 w/Sonnet card = 300 MHz G3 7100


that one's still in use. It's sitting about a foot away to my left, running MacOS 8.6, and I Timbuktu into it from home to make remote changes to the database during off-hours.


• PowerBook G3 Series ("WallStreet")

the amazing incredible best-Mac-I-ever-owned PowerBook. I've now owned this machine for nearly 1/3 of the time that Apple Computer has existed and I'm still satisfied with it as my primary computer. Of course, at some point it, too, got old:


• PowerBook WallStreet with Sonnet G4/500 daughtercard


By today's specs even that makes it slow, but it doesn't feel slow. Thanks to XPostFacto it's got Panther on it, which rocks; the 7200 Hitachi 60 GB drive adds a lot of zippiness to it, too.

Counting back, it looks like I get about 5 years' primary use from a Mac, plus as much as 5 more years as auxiliary/"other" computer.

Oh, and while not part of my "main sequence", but rescued from the discard pile a few months ago, I also have on my desk:


• original LC running 6.0.8