To all the computers I've loved before...

Ah, the operating systems of the past.  Here's the computers I've owned, along with a few memories of each.

Commodore VIC20. My first computer exposure, in a summer camp.  Wrote choose your own adventures in BASIC.

Commodore 64/128 - First computer I owned.  Had to put ice packs on the power supply. Very slow modem,  lots of hacked software.  Wrote games using Gary Kitchen's Game maker. Wrote choose your own adventures with ASCII art in Commodore Basic. Spent a lot of time trying to figure out Super Huey flight simulator.

Apple II E - Early nineteen eighties at St. Anthony's Pewaukee.  Enjoyed such applications as The Print Shop, Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego, Turtle, a Typing Tutor, and Oregon Trail.  Captured Carmen, of course.

Apple II GS and Imagewriter - Late nineteen eighties.  That was the first color printer I'd been exposed to.  It was sleek though and used a lot of ink.  The II GS also had color which made it seem modern. But I never owned one.

Apple Mac Performa - Mid-nineteen nineties.  College music writing phase. Fell in love with Opcode Studio Vision. Realized I had to own a Mac some day to write music.  Wrote two albums worth of songs before being forcibly kicked out of lab by snotty music majors (I was "only" a music minor.)  Got lots of downloads for my stuff from mp3.com, when there was an mp3.com.

At work got first exposure to Sun Solaris and UNIX at ExecPC in New Berlin. Had a basic Win98 machine there that i customized and broke often.

AMD Athlon K6 PC - ah yes. This saw me install every alpha and beta of Windows 98.   I was nuts.  I think I installed every build released until the final one. I felt so ahead of my time.

P3 667 mhz - Wow, P3 speeds. still windows.  Stuck with 98 SE for a long time.  Used Trumpet Winsock to get into the Internet until it was translated into Windows Sockets. Wow. That was a long time ago.  Wrote the NDL page.

iMacs running OS 8.6-9.0 - used them to author footspot.com in an obscure scripting language called SmithMicro WebDNA.  Realized I hated Mac OS Classic for business related tasks. Stopped using Macs out of disgust with the "Chooser", memory leaks and a whole bevy of other issues - but got hired to use Filemaker for database administration go figure.

Got on the job MCSE training for certification. Became a bit of a Windows nazi for a brief period of time with Windows 2003 server.  Bet people who know me now wouldn't believe that..but it's true.

P4 3.2 ghz Got a hot and fast but not "extreme" P4 box home built. Ran Windows 2000, XP, and now my wife runs Vista on it (soon to be Windows 7.) Used it for everything, including music composition with Cakewalk Pro, writing websites with Macromedia dreamweaver, etc. If I wanted to play with Windows 2k server or Windows 2003 server  or SQL 2000/2005 I just went to work. :)

Macbook - 2006 - Got my wife a Mac for graphic design reasons, it ran Tiger.Promptly fell for Unix/MacOS again.

Macbook Pro early 2008  Core 2 Duo - My current and primary computer.  Logic Express works JUST LIKE Vision for writing music, I love it.  Use the computer for everything, except Outlook and some work-related apps. Digging around in Darwin and Unix, but don't shy away from my Windows VM either.

Liking Windows 7; I may switch to a netbook next generation...we'll see..but they say, once you go Mac...