I immediately gravitated toward Apple and am/was a great supporter. They have rarely disappointed me.
I love Apple Care and these people can be a huge help. I am still so eager to learn.
Someone put an Apple computer in the back of my classroom. My fourth graders taught me as I did not even know how to turn it on.
I soon got a Performa 6200 for myself. Last I checked it was still working and I always fixed it myself, with the help of the guy working in an itty bitty room at MicroCenter, dedicated to Mac, who told me to zap the PRAM or something similar. But it never deterred me that software was hard to find. Or that many people actually looked down on Apple geeks. (Although I never studied a computer language, never even took a course, I still consider me to be geeks).
The computer teacher was awesome. He knew he had a big fan in me and taught me just about everything. The other teachers just were not interested! And I also taught myself by reading manuals etc. The computer teacher lent me a LOT of software which I took home and installed on my Mac.
I was hooked IMMEDIATELY and I loved Steve Job’s attitude, points of view although he could be a bit rough.
I use to be in the Writers Cafe all the time on AOL. They initially were charging by the hour! Egads, did I have some bills. That was the only group of educated people that I could fine.
There were a wide assortment of chatrooms like Submissive Men(LOL!, I was curious…) and one for fans of the Middle Ages!
My earlier experiences with computers had not been positive. I had never taken a typing class. Then they put in the Delete space and I was typing!
I am the fastest one handed typist you will ever see. And I look at the keyboard although I do really know the keys pretty well.
About 10 years ago, someone from AT&T from India worked nights for computer tech. I called one night and had deal with this cretin.
He gave me laptop a virus of some sort. All sorts of weird stuff was flying by my Internet. The next day I went to turn on my laptop and got no response. I was half devastated and could not afford another laptop.
So I have been using iPads instead which is endlessly fascinating.
AHHH, but they are not App computers. I recently bought myself a new MacBook Air M1 and I love it.
A lot of what I had learned on a Mac has been coming back to me. But it will take time. Apple Care is wonderful and I am indebted to you guys here especially that are so generous in helping out.
I could write a book but I’ll be kind not to!
I love, love, love Apple computers, iPads , iPhones, the Mac, Apple Care, the Dummy Series and especially this website of MacSparky’s and Steve’s. I listened to the very first podcast! I love Katie yet always tended to agree with David.
How amazing these people are! And I include the kind, funny, brilliant members right here.
Thanks, everybody!