I was reading this article on OS news recently about the original Mac and it brought back some fond memories. My first experience with a Mac was in 1994, in my high school's "writing lab". This computer lab was housed in the English department and had 25 or so Mac plus computers, with 20 megabyte external hard drives, and a keyboard and mouse with that famous RJ-11 cable (or at least I think it was RJ).

Yes the screen was monochrome, but it was a computer that I could use whenever I wanted (and school was open of course). I remember that in the first few weeks that I used the Mac I used floppies like temporary memory. I started working on my paper, saved it, printed it and handed it in. I came back to the paper once I had received corrections and made the necessary edits. Once the final grade was in I started deleting my old papers before any subsequent ones (that is until someone told me that I should save my work just in case).

Those were the days! I didn't use the Mac Writing Lab (with Word 1.0) for very long. Once I discovered the LC III lab I rarely stepped foot into that old writing lab again - but that was my introduction to the Mac (and the amazingly huge 20MB hard drive)