Mac for Linux Geeks
xvii Preface I didn’t come to the Mac overnight, though it must have seemed that way to my friends and family. One day, I was extolling the virtues of Linux and open source; the next, I was talking about the Macintosh platform with nearly as much vigor. My first computer was an Atari 1040ST, a...
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Preface
I didn’t come to the Mac overnight, though it must have seemed that way to my friends and
family. One day, I was extolling the virtues of Linux and open source; the next, I was talking
about the Macintosh platform with nearly as much vigor.
My first computer was an Atari 1040ST, a stunning piece of machinery for 1986. It was
available for less than $1,500 and came equipped with an entire megabyte of RAM. I hadn’t
been in the fledgling computer club in school during the 70s, and I really couldn’t put my
finger on why I had any interest at all in computers. In fact, I’m not sure I had even seen one
before taking a sales job at a Federated electronics store. Computers were for geeks, after all
(or, as we so mockingly called them in school, nerds). But from the first time I connected to
CompuServe, computing had its hooks in me deeply. In just a few short weeks, I had made
friends with a fellow computer enthusiast in our city of Arlington, Texas, and we managed
to battle it out in mock dogfights online with a crude flight simulator for hours on end. Our
families quickly tired of the sound of the modem when they called. According to my wife, I
had clearly developed a substance-abuse problem. I had. The substance was silicon. |
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