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[ibmman]

I just went to a birthday party. However it was the 20th birthday of the macintosh :) we had a small MacRIT party and the other resident apple historian who happens to have more of his colletcion closer to here than I do brought the original mac, a mac portable and the twentieth anniversary mac (which was for the 20th aniversary of apple computer, back in 97) i also brought down my powerbook 170 that I snuck up here just so i wouldnt have to goto a mac users group meeting with a PC laptop. so the macs got party hats and we had a big cookie-cake and I have pictures :D

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[thepowernerd.livejournal.com]

i'm in awe of the geekiness up there...

[red-phoenix11.livejournal.com]

I'm in awe of the fact someone whose username is ibmman went to a mac party...

[ibmman.livejournal.com]

the 'ibmman' thing actually came about when I was trying to create my first email account in like 1996... 'pcguy' was aleady taken and other variations of that as well.. and since at that time 'ibm' was still pretty much equivalent to 'pc' (system requirements: IBM or equivalent PC). Although for some reason PC ended up referring to IBM compatibles and 'Macs' or 'Apples' ended up referring to Apple's systems it is unavoidable to consider what the term 'PC' actually means. It was pretty much coined when the xerox Alto was built and 'personal computer' came to mean any computer that was small enough to fit under a desk. Although thats chaged and by most people's standards a computer that could just fit under a normal sized desk would be considered rather large, 'Personal Computer' still doesn't make any implications about computer architecture, brand, etc. heck, saying 'IBM' doesn't even just refer to x86-based systems running windows anymore because most of IBM's ventures into computing now involve their own architectures and they are also the biggest corporate pusher of linux. They recently made the decision to make linux the primary desktop software for the company. One other thing- IBM just happens to produce the G5 processor... and the original cpu in the powermac, the powerpc, was a joint venture between IBM and apple. and I haven't found anything else that I like really.. brian uses Deep End and Five Feet Deep and things such as 'geek boy' sound cheesy.