I absolutely have had the same experience.
I started with an Apple 2E with the memory upgrade to 128K, Apple Cat 212 modem
(with all the various phreaking applications including a handy dtmf and 2600hz
generator I wrote for it), applied engineering clock card, cyder 40 MB HD, the
echo 2, macking board, duo disk and z80 CPM card. The insides looked like
something you'd find in a phone company. I learned so much from that computer
especially hardware and how to function with complex hardware as a blind
person. Connecting up modern computers is such a breeze compared to the stuff
we dealt with back then.
I Went PC and Linux starting with a 386SX33 w/ 387 match co (20 mhz) then
upgraded to a 386dx40 shortly after that though I started my own ISP and went
all Sun and Sunos at first with Solaris later when we went to multi cpu boxes.
I just went back to the Mac the last week of August and took it on
vacation with me to force myself to use it. It's wonderful and I won't go back
to a native windows environment. I do use fusion and XP pro but that's just
for outlook and office support.
I'll be going IPhone in January when Verizon finally supports it. The IPod
touch is off the chain though!
Welcome to the list.
On Nov 4, 2010, at 2:14 PM, Austin Seraphin wrote:
> Hello. I have had quite a last few months. Apples everywhere! First, I got an
> iPhone in June. I wrote an article about it, which went viral:
> http://behindthecurtain.us/2010/06/12/my-first-week-with-the-iphone/
> Since then I've appeared in such publications as the Atlantic and on CBC's
> weekly technology program Spark. I immediately fell in love with Apple again,
> since I actually started on an Apple II/E with an Echo II speech synthesizer,
> to anyone who remembers that. It still works, by the way. After I got an
> iPhone I got an iPad to check out the larger screen. I knew at some point I
> would get a Mac, and one day a month and a half ago I knew the time had come:
> http://behindthecurtain.us/2010/09/11/rejoining-the-apple-family/
> I absolutely love my Mac. I got an iMac to do audio editing, but now just use
> it for everything of course. I also just got one of the beautiful brand new
> MacBook Air 11-inch models. Now I have the whole line!
>
> Unlike many, I actually come to the Mac from Linux, having ditched Windows
> years ago. I felt delighted to learn that a lot of my knowledge will not go
> to waste. I feel that Apple has brought the cutting edge to the blind, for
> example bringing the power of touchpad gestures to the desktop. I also
> appreciate the way it combines a clean interface on top of a Unix
> environment. I look forward to learning so much! The Apple Accessibility team
> contacted me because of my iPhone article, and recommended I join this list.
> I feel glad I did, I've already started learning things. Check out my blog
> and read about my adventures, including my most recent tale of getting a
> MobileMe account.
> No doubt I will have many more Apple tales!
>
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