He was the one that embodied all that Apple was advertising in a Mac user. The business analyst in our office, David, was an older gentleman, maybe pushing 60 or greater, but what struck me was his affinity and love of the Mac. What I did remember is them touting the ease of “right out of the box” use, and how friendly the experience is. The Macintosh line of computers were launched in 1984 and I had new of them through various ads, but didn’t pay too much attention overall. My previous job, working in the materiel coordination department of a major airline, saw the office full of IBM PC-XT computers, not one Mac in sight, but this new job had two, a Mac Plus and a Mac SE/30. It was J, the first day of my first job as an engineer. This post evolved from a series of tweets I posted on my Twitter feed from through, which can be read here. This (long) blog post describes my journey and fandom (as it has evolved), from then to now. Looking back on being an Apple fanboy to present day, I consider the late 80’s into the early 2000s as the “golden era” of Apple. That product was the Mac Plus (and the Mac SE/30), back in July 1988. Seeing this ad brought back fond memories all the way back to the first time I ever used an Apple product. I still have both those phones, still in near immaculate condition. It was also the second iPhone that I ever owned – an upgrade from my first one, the iPhone 4. This was the model that introduced the world to Siri. Recently I came across a photo of an old ad (ten years ago) for the iPhone 4S. Transmitting from my iPhone 22 mini via the WordPress for iOS app. Right now, this man is tired and the alarm will go off mighty earlier. We’ve got three singles that will drop prior to the entire project next spring. An Akai MPC 2500 sampling drum machine sits on top.īeen spending a lot time in hear during the last two weeks working on tracks for a collaboration project dropping in January 2022, as well as a sophomore project my recording partner and I have been working on for quite some time. To the right and out of the picture is a 16-space rack of vintage synth modules. Despite it’s age, it gets the job done but I’m currently saving up for the M1 Mac mini, 16GB and a newer MOTU digital audio interface (the 828 Mk3 Hybrid) for use with the M1. The computer – a mid-2011 Mac mini running High Sierra is the center piece. The central recording and music production tool is Logic 10.4.8, with Native Instruments Maschine and other NI products integrated into the music production workflow.
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