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1. nixCraft 🐧 (nixcraft@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Jan-2024 18:12:12 JST nixCraft 🐧

   On January 24, 1984, Macintosh computers were introduced by Apple. Happy Birthday 🎂 Today, Mac is one of the few certified #Unix machines you can buy easily. Do you use a Mac?

   • Filippo Nova (fnova@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Jan-2024 19:01:17 JST Filippo Nova

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     @nixCraft , yeah!

   • ghurabalbayn 🇪🇺 🇳🇱 🇩🇪 (ghurab@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Jan-2024 19:55:32 JST ghurabalbayn 🇪🇺 🇳🇱 🇩🇪

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     @nixCraft Yes. I bought my first Mac in 1986.

   • Bea (bearbeorn@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Jan-2024 19:56:27 JST Bea

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     @nixCraft io c’ero!!!
     E iniziavo ad usare sul lavoro il primo Mac da 1 Mb di ram 😱

   • rustybikes 🐧 (rustybikes@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Jan-2024 20:12:00 JST rustybikes 🐧

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     @nixCraft Yep. It's been a long, strange road. So far.

   • Pontus (pontus_k@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Jan-2024 20:34:49 JST Pontus

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     @nixCraft Basically forced to use a Mac for work, but if I could ditch MacOS for Linux completely I would.

   • Stefan Wolfrum :mastodon: (metawops@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Jan-2024 20:58:49 JST Stefan Wolfrum :mastodon:

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     @nixCraft WOW! Crazy! 40 years!! ❤️ I loved and love all the Macs I had and still have. Joined the party ca. 2001 with a white G3 based iBook (I think it was the „Dual USB“ model). Never went back to Windows computers since then. Never owned a classic Macintosh, though. Maybe some day I will. Would love to! #Mac #Macintosh

   • Healthcarer (healthcarer@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Jan-2024 20:58:57 JST Healthcarer

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     @nixCraft Used the original but nothing since.

   • xs4me2 (xs4me2@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Jan-2024 21:04:52 JST xs4me2

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     @nixCraft

     Of course!

   • Ian Malcolm (imalcolm@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Jan-2024 21:11:47 JST Ian Malcolm

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     @nixCraft

     Yep. While I've been using Windows PCs for work for 25+ years, at home my current main machine (typing on right now) is an M1 MacBook Air, but I also still use my 2011 iMac all the time - it just keeps on going.

   • ketchup71 (ketchup71@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Jan-2024 21:53:39 JST ketchup71

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     @nixCraft Yes. 🙂

     But… the original macOS (I forgot how it was spelled), the one with the nice ad, was definitively not UNIX. And the current macOS does not really care about UNIX anymore, it’s just that NextStep used to build on BSD.
     Is it UNIX certified? No idea, but if true, this just tells you how irrelevant such a certificate is today: The overwhelmingly important unixoid platform is Linux, and it does not feel like a Unix certificate is important to Linux, at all. 🤷♂️🙂

   • Jack Yan (甄爵恩) (jackyan@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Jan-2024 22:06:45 JST Jack Yan (甄爵恩)

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     @nixCraft Picked up the brochures, still deciding.

     Just kidding, must have owned four Imacs over the years.

   • Kevin Hoctor (kevinhoctor@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Jan-2024 23:21:46 JST Kevin Hoctor

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     @nixCraft I was thrilled with the Lisa, but knew I could never afford one. My friend said, “Come back in a couple of weeks.” I saw the Macintosh a few days after it came out and started scheming how to buy one.

     By the end of March, I picked up my first real computer (I built a Heathkit terminal the year before).

   • djohngo (djohngo@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Jan-2024 23:26:14 JST djohngo

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     @nixCraft The Mac is old enough to start listening to Steely Dan.

   • Chuck (mister_pink_rose@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Jan-2024 23:55:51 JST Chuck

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     @nixCraft Sorry, I never had a Mac; I've always used PCs.

   • Tucker Teague (tuckerteague@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 25-Jan-2024 00:05:08 JST Tucker Teague

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     • Carmela 🍉🔻

     @nixCraft @DocCarms I bought a Macintosh in 1988 with my student discount. I couldn’t afford a printer, so I would take my floppy disk to the campus computer center to print my papers. Since then I’ve had a couple MacBooks and several PCs. Now I’m running Linux on a Thinkpad.

   • InnerAlien (inneralien@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 25-Jan-2024 00:24:00 JST InnerAlien

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     @nixCraft engage flame war 🔥🔥🔥
     I love using a Mac. Apple put that last 10% effort into making things simple and good looking for those that appreciate it. Linux desktop will just never get that. All my Linux boxes are headless.

     My desktop has two iTerm terminals open and filling the screen for most of the day, but the UI apps that I do use are really well made.

     It took me 15+ years to switch from Linux desktop to Mac, and I still have no regrets.

   • gregg r (grheavyroller@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 25-Jan-2024 01:16:18 JST gregg r

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     @nixCraft Bought one they introduced it. If Apple put today's hardware in that shell, I'd buy one. Call it the iMac Heritage.

   • Weasel (weaselx86@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 25-Jan-2024 02:53:12 JST Weasel

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     @nixCraft

     I've got an original Macintosh I bought for my mother in 1984, in its original box, which I unboxed and booted in June 2023. It seems to work, though it has trouble ejecting the disc.