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My high school art teacher brought his Macintosh computer to class. I and other students were very eager to use the computer. It had a program on it called MacPaint.
I recently sold my Macintosh computer. I've had a dozen Macintosh computers in the past two decades. My first computer, A Macintosh 512k, that was upgraded to a MacPlus, didn't have a hard drive, instead it had two floppy disk drives, one for the system, which fit on a 400k disk, and one for the application. It had 1 megabyte of RAM. I bought the computer used from a local music store, for a meager $1200, and my dad paid for half of it.
I got some software for it from my high school art teacher and started creating drawings on it. I would bring the drawings on a floppy disk to a local computer store that had a laser printer, and make laser prints of my drawings. One evening I asked a sales rep at the store if they were looking for help, his manager had heard me and came out from his office, I ended getting the job and selling Macintosh computers for the next seven years. I bought a new computer almost every year following. My next computer an SE/30 had a 40 megabyte (the size of a typical modern Photoshop file) hard drive. It made my last computer seem like an antique, though like the MacPlus it had a 9" black and white monitor. The computer listed for over $4000 dollars, I paid closer to $2500 after an educators discount.
I recently sold my Macintosh computer. I've had a dozen Macintosh computers in the past two decades. My first computer, A Macintosh 512k, that was upgraded to a MacPlus, didn't have a hard drive, instead it had two floppy disk drives, one for the system, which fit on a 400k disk, and one for the application. It had 1 megabyte of RAM. I bought the computer used from a local music store, for a meager $1200, and my dad paid for half of it.
I got some software for it from my high school art teacher and started creating drawings on it. I would bring the drawings on a floppy disk to a local computer store that had a laser printer, and make laser prints of my drawings. One evening I asked a sales rep at the store if they were looking for help, his manager had heard me and came out from his office, I ended getting the job and selling Macintosh computers for the next seven years. I bought a new computer almost every year following. My next computer an SE/30 had a 40 megabyte (the size of a typical modern Photoshop file) hard drive. It made my last computer seem like an antique, though like the MacPlus it had a 9" black and white monitor. The computer listed for over $4000 dollars, I paid closer to $2500 after an educators discount.
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