| Who is R. Sixkiller ? |
Actually, I'm just a regular guy who loves Macs. Since there's nothing in my private life that relates to anything on this site at all, I'll just tell you about my history in Macintosh ownership.
I've been a Mac user since I was eight, starting out on my dad's Mac SE back then. I would play around with HyperCard and the Scrapbook, trying to figure out what the Edit menu was for. :-)
A few years later, I acquired a second-hand Mac Plus, at $300. This Mac supported only 800K and 400K floppies, so, in order to install System 7.0, I later swapped the Plus with my dad's SE (he didn't care either way as long as he could print his articles).
A while from there, Apple introduced a bunch of new color Macs, such as the Performa 475 & 630 Series. A few months later, we had a Performa 475 system sitting boxed in the hall. For years I used this 475, adding peripherals and upgrading it to the max. Zip drives, CD-ROM, RAM, etc etc.
Then the Power Macintosh began
to take over the Mac software platform, and the -192 error codes
started popping up too often. I started saving up for a new Mac.
Selling the 475 pizzabox at $300 (keeping the screen and keyboard/mouse),
I purchased a $600 second-hand PowerMac 6100. I was thrilled.
I was from there on able to play MP3s, run some good lookin'
3D engines and play Marathon 2 in hi-res fullscreen :)
As Apple introduced the G3 models a year or so later, NewerTech
first introduced a series of G3 upgrades for a wide range of
"classic" PowerMacs, including the x100 series. I immediately
pre-ordered a NewerTech MAXpowr G3/210 card. As the demand for
the card got *HUGE* however, NewerTech suffered incredible delays
manufacturing the upgrades. Many of 'us' thus switched to SonnetTech,
Newer's first competitor, whose delivery was alot
faster. In fact, I received my G3 card through FedEx within two
weeks. I installed the card, rebooted with the Sonnet extension,
and BOOM! I was the happy owner of a brand new 215 MHz G3 powerhouse.
Only a few months later, the small amount of Video RAM in the 6100 began to really bother me. Since the G3 card was occupying my only upgrade slot, and the G3 card has a design flaw that prevented the NuBus pass-through slot from working, my only choice left was to get either a 7100 or an 8100. So I did. I sold the 6100 to my cousin at $500 and bought an 8100 minitower. I kept the G3 card and popped it into the 8100, making me a pretty decent machine. It would do 1024x768 at 32768 colors, if I remember correctly.
As the word on the upcoming Mac OS X began to spread, and my interest in Linux began to grow, I figured I needed a PCI PowerMac so I could run LinuxPPC, and in the future, Mac OS X (Server). Considering the fact that my Mac setup had became a pretty decent piece of machinery alltogether, I put the 8100/G3 up for sale at somewhere around $900, and bought a PowerMac 9500/233. Though I did lose 1 GB of hard drive space, cause I didn't get the opportunity to swap the hard drives around, the 9500 was most excellent Mac I had ever owned. It ran Linux, BeOS, and even OS X Server.
Then, for a short while, I must've lost my mind. I don't know if some serious knock on the back of my head I don't know about caused it - but - I bought a PC. Why ? PC-owning buddies of mine showed me their fast-yet-cheap Intel boxes running Need for Speed, DethKarz, Turok and so on. I felt like I needed something completely different for a change. I sold the 9500, along with all the peripherals, and bought a 350 MHz Pentium II system with Diamond Viper550 TNT 3D card and WinTV tuner card. While I did enjoy most of the games that weren't available on Mac OS, I found myself getting more and more annoyed by Windows and running Mac OS emulators.
Then - somewhere around Christmas, me, my cousins and brother were each given a large amount of money by my grandmother. As you can probably guess, I couldn't help myself and bought a brand new Blue/White PowerMac G3/350 Rev 2 system, codenamed Yosemite. I sold the PC entirely, only keeping the CD-Writer and CTX 17" SVGA screen. This is my current main 'puter today.
For a complete list of Macs I own now, check My Macs.
