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My little story with Apple Macintoshes &


Update: In March 2010 the story has added another chapter because I purchased a new Macintosh, MacBook Pro Core 2 Duo 2.26 GHz and screen 13.
http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/macbook_pro/stats/macbook-pro-core-2-duo-2.26-aluminum-13-mid-2009-sd-firewire-800-unibody-specs. html

Continuing the series on previous machines I had, I will follow for 2000 and the present. I'll skip the 8-bit machines for 32-bit, with computing resources and recreation and more interesting.

Macintosh LC II
My first Mac was a Macintosh LC II, a desktop with Motorola m68k processor and 16MB of RAM. I got this machine (1999/2000) as a donation (used) and had one flaw: she went into bootstrap but the disc did not work. After some tips from Carlos "Perigot," we open the HD and made the record start with a little push. " This desktop has worked relatively well for a while with Mac OS 8, including ethernet and TCP stack. The nerd factor of this machine was able to boot Linux in order to calculate the BogoMips , with the result 3.69.
http://lowendmac.com/lc/macintosh-lc-ii.html .


iMac 266 iMac I bought a (used) in 2001, was one of those with "revolutionary design", the color tangerine. Fitted to a late PowerPC G3 @ 266 MHz Mac OS 8, which then came up to version 9. Dai was iTunes and I met her there to bug interesting: eventually the system would hang and yet iTunes still playing MP3, clearly the iTunes player lived in a particular thread of Mac OS:). With this machine I know I could install and Mac OS X, one in which the stripes on the new interface were the vanguard. One day he died because of the analog interface (the one that controlled the monitor) and sold to become a router for the Miura.
http://lowendmac.com/imacs/rev-c-imac-g3-266-mhz.html

12 "iBook G3/500 (Dual USB)
My iBook (2004) was more a machine that I had before and that had to be resuscitated from the ashes so he could use, kudos once again to my local Woz, the Perigot , who managed to redo part of the board note that some "technical" committed the crime of damage. It was my first notebook, because I had a Toshiba Libretto before, but I had fun with it, because it can take you with me wherever I wanted. Equipped with a PowerPC G3 @ 500 Mhz and 256MB RAM (after 320 of RAM). He spent most of the time running Mac OS X Panther. The Rudix came with this notebook, which I keep a lot of nostalgia and respect (RIP PowerPC G3).
http://lowendmac.com/pb2/12in-ibook-g3-500-mhz.html

Apple MacBook Core Duo 1.83
In December 2006 I could buy my first Mac, a MacBook every white and with the new processor from Intel, the Core Duo@1.83 GHz, which also is still my notebook and desktop. I did some upgrades on it, as put 2GB of RAM and swapped the original HD for a 60GB to 160GB, this notebook has great performance for the things I do (basically development, music and photos). I went through several versions of Mac OS X: Tiger, Leopard and Snow Leopard, and that the momentum is still being developed Rudix this pet. Being a Core Duo, age already falls on him, because of some limitations that force me to upgrade (Snow Leopard also reinforces that) for a 64 bit machine and supports new technologies such OpenCL with a good video card.
http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/macbook/stats/macbook_1.83.html

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My little story with 8 bit computers

My father did not want to give me an Atari or Odyssey, he heard somewhere that a computer would be useful, although he (and nobody at the time) knew very well why. Lucky me it was the electronics hobbyist and eventually led me in that way.



Prológica CP 200

This was my first 8-bit computer was a PC based line Sinclair Z80 processor with 16KB of RAM. I won on my 12th birthday (in 1984). It was exciting out of the box and turn the unit on TV, but ...

When I called the TV and saw a flashing prompt on the screen and the machine does not answer my question, Oh Deception! I was very disappointed, but it was also discovered that dai that a computer needed to be useful to be programmed, and it is (or was?) fun.

The CP 200 was not very interesting in itself, you type in BASIC programs and each key has a command called BASIC (type, P to PRINT). I remember a game where the challenge was to land a plane (the symbol>) at an airport dirty green squares, another more interesting game was a maze in low resolution in which the goal was to escape a dinosaur, believe it was exciting .

that time, the programs were saved and loaded into the system through a tape cassate. There was a whole vocabulary on it (azimuth was a term) and also several Mandingo to load the program occurred without errors. The sound of the tape was a sharp sound very similar to the sound of modems that after we started using to access the BBS.

http://www.mci.org.br/micro/prologica/cp200.html

Prológica CP 300



was the first computer "serious" I had, because he was the brother CP 500's newest (and less powerful as well). Basically an online copy of the TRS-80 American. I got was this micro solid fundamentals in BASIC programming (or burned my brain for programming) and also where I gave my first steps in the assembly of Z-80.

CP 300 came with 64 KB of RAM and 16 KB of ROM, unfortunately no hard disk was not allowed to run professional applications of the CP 500. Moreover, the CP 500 at this time was the computer of the dreams of many people.

miss two games bring me to this day: Daemon Dancing, which was a puppet who danced to the rhythm of music (all programmable) and Robot Attack, a maze game that had voice spoke ... ROBOT ATTACK! at first, incredible for that time.

Another game like the others was Penetrator, a game that went just to see again, and in equal enjoyment with the arrival of the Nemesis MSX.

http://www.mci.org.br/micro/prologica/cp300.html

Prológica CP 400



My first PC which displayed colors! Just remember that computer more as a gaming platform. I keep missing the games on cartridge and the analog joystick, which allowed me to run a super 3D flight simulator (well, only on lines, but whatever.) Another game that really liked was the Popeye, like a Super Mario at the time.

CP 400 I was learned in the assembly of 6809, a bid that was very, very bizarre, that is totally different from the Z-80. But basically it was just a game to me.

http://www.mci.org.br/micro/prologica/cp400.html

Sharp Bit Hot



cry a little tear ... This was my last micro 8a and also best of them all. It was a fantastic machine, in which I deeply know the details of hardware and programming, but also had fun with the games. It was equipped with a Z-80 processor, 64 MB RAM 32 MB of ROM and 16KB of VRAM more video processor or the IBM PC had this.

My high point at that time was to write (in the assembly of Z-80) a program that samples the audio input and kept the bits, to be played again on the speaker. Difficult to have that level of knowledge of machine I had with the MSX, I disassemble the ROM ALL OF MSX to know how it worked.

Unfortunately I could not one thing with the MSX: develop a substitute for FORTH BASIC MSX, since that time (1990) I started to lose interest in computers and programming, and I got excited about making music and have electronic band.

MSX games were very nice, I scored were: Zanac, Nemesis, Knighmare, Batman, Knight Lore, Metal Gear, I know there are so many of Konami, not to mention that the audio portion of the MSX was very interesting and somehow motivated me to go to music.

With Hot Bit I might have a unit Floppy 3 1 / 2 and run the operating system CP / M. It was also learned that the MSX with a programming language more polished, called Turbo Pascal.

Somehow, I can understand the nostalgia and MSX user meetings that take place in Brazil today, but honestly, I'm much more my MacBook and all that we currently have in computing. The 80 were only experiment with computer nerd.

http://www.mci.org.br/micro/outros/hotbit.html

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10 years of Linux No title as a professional


This year 2009 I completed a decade of professional use of Linux. My first contact with the Unix clone (as was said at the time) happened in 1995, installing Slackware had downloaded and copied the UFPA in a series of floppy disks, right after I got to get a CD InfoMagic, but that's another story. I started professionally with Linux in 1999, entering the first technical support team Conectiva Linux and then promoted the development team, where I could get a lot of technical knowledge and friendships that are present today (not physically, of course) . Through the system there Finn that you know, I could create and work at my own company (Haxent), to develop research in a mobile Linux platform with Python (another great springboard professional) in Nokia Institute of Technology, and working on backend systems and high performance portal Terra Networks. And it all started as a joke to me, at that time was not very useful today and guarantees my career.