Introduction

Our family purchased the first Macintosh computer when it debuted back in 1984. I had no idea what my dad had brought home that day except that the screen was tiny, you had to swap out the system disk with your program disk after booting (no hard drives back then), and the printer was very, very loud. My siblings and I used the machine to play games, write reports for school, and tinker with programming (MS Basic), but none of us really got into it that much.

The machine followed me to college but was soon abandoned when I saw my roommate's Intel 386 machine running Windows 3.1. Fool that I was comparing a seven-year-old black and white Macintosh 128K to the speedy new eye-candy of the day. It led me into several years of servitude to Bill Gates and the Microsoft way.

I'll admit that I have lusted after the Mac OS X operating system ever since I first saw it in action. Who wouldn't! The beauty of the Aqua interface built on top of a BSD operating system. It sounded like the perfect solution to my Windows woes. The only hiccup was the lack of an Apple computer and the lack of funds with which to purchase one. So I did what any good geek would do and decided to marry into one (of course that is not the only reason, but the merging of computer systems should always be considered seriously before any proposition of marriage).

The Apple system, her name is Joy, now hums along happily in our home office. These pages detail some of the adventures I have had with Mac OS X over the past six months.

Adventures

The menus to the right list some of the ways in which I use the Apple here at home and some of the software I have running on OS X. This information is provided to give you ideas and help on setting things up for yourself.

There are also some general links with useful information on OS X. Each adventure also lists links that were helpful for that specific project. Some adventures are works in progress, too.

Currently Running . . .

· Mac OS X (10.2.4)
· PowerMac G4, 400MHz - digital audio