Mac’s 40th anniversary: in jr high I learned programming, as it was called, in Basic, on an Apple 2E. My late best friend and I were 2 girls among 30 boys and we had to share 3 computers, though some boys had them at home. For the final assignment I wrote a program of 10,000+ lines that would cast a horoscope. I also took typing, on IBM Selectrics with whited out keys and a QWERTY chart on the wall in front of us. Can still type 90+ wpm (I won the award in school each year.) #macintosh40 1/3
My first Mac was a well-loved Macintosh Plus that my dad passed down when he upgraded to a Mac Classic way back in 1988. It had a 9-inch monochrome screen, an external 20MB hard drive, and a Drexel University symbol painted on the front of the case below the rainbow Apple logo.
With access to HyperCard, MacPaint, and Microsoft Basic (and SimCity!), my UX-focused-developer destiny was sealed.