I wish I had kept all my old Macs. Well, actually, I don’t since I traveled a lot and having a lot of stuff to move or keep in storage is always a pain. I got rid of a lot of my stuff over the years to make moving across the globe easier, so in a sense I’m glad I got rid of most of my old Macs. But on a day like this, I do miss them. A lot of them held a special place for me.
Mac 128 — well, duh
Mac 512 – nicer than the 128 and I had gotten some money so whatever
Mac 512e — more of what was already great, but now just really awesome, expensive to me at the time
Mac SE – felt at the time like a new world
Mac SE/30 — upgraded my SE through an Apple upgrade program, to this day one of my all time favorite Macs
Mac IIci — what a daemon and until the PM7300 I felt like a true replacement for this Mac form factor had yet to come
Mac IIfx — it was fast for sure, but quirky and huge and somehow I always still preferred my IIci
Mac IIsi — nice clean shell and I loved the Apple Portrait Monitor I bought along with it, but hella laggy, gosh what a dog
Mac LC I & III — great form factor, nothing like popping the cover off and getting direct access to the few guts, it was slow but cheap (“LC” after all)
Mac Color Classic — this one was fun since it mimicked the original Mac but added neat stuff like a nice color display, if only it hadn’t been such a dog
Mac LC 475 — what made the previous LCs great but now actually really fast too, I really loved this svelte Mac
PowerBook 150 — I thought the world would never be the same when I got my first portable Mac
Quadra 700 — worthy successor to the IIci, later used this as my first “server”
PowerBook Duo 230 and Duo Dock — around this time I was starting to wonder if I could go notebook+dock full-time (as I later learned, that would take another 12 years)
Mac IIvx — not as slow as the vi, but still a cheap feeling box, never warmed up to it
Quadra 950 — holy cow, at the time this felt like a monster
Centris 610 — felt like a modern LC, really liked the new form factor
Performa 630 — inexpensive, but felt like the almost perfect Mac for home use (and later it even got an awesome PPC card that allowed you to preserve the 68040 and switch back and forth between the two)
PowerMac 6100 — PPC yippee, and since I just loved that form factor I had to have it
Macintosh PowerBook 5300cs — it was fat, meh
PowerMac 7300 — for a long time I really enjoyed this Mac, lots of expansion for a desktop, easy to take apart
PowerMac 9500 — felt like the PPC version of the 950, just a beast, and loud
iMac G3 — once again felt like a new world, loved it (but USB 1 sucked for external storage)
PowerMac G3 — I loved the blue case at the time and how easy it was to open and expand, loved FW
PowerBook G3 Wall Street — felt like the greatest portable of them all to me back in the day
PowerBook G4 Titanium — only used this one for a short time, never felt quite as enthusiastic about it as what appeared to be everybody else at the time (the discoloration splotches that appeared after a while really sucked)
iMac G4 — to this day one of my favorite iMac designs, unmatched ergonomics
PowerMac G4 MDD — fast, but loud, even after installing the Apple noise reduction kit, my wife actually made me get rid of this Mac because she could still hear it from across the hallway in another room
PowerMac G5 — water cooling LOL, but it was quiet
Xserve G4 — I remember seeing dozens of these get installed at our department at the time, interesting times, kept one in my basement at home for a while after we had removed them from our racks at work, this was actually my last personal Mac “desktop” hardware, from there on out my use of Mac desktops was always remote through VNC
12" PowerBook G4 — how I loved this compact Mac, it just always ran warm (with a noisy little fan) and lagged the 15" specs by at least one gen
MacBook — this one was fun, I loved the matte black case, its plastic had a really nice grippy feel that reminded me of some of the old PowerBooks
15" MacBook Pro Core Duo — Intel was a huge boost at the time and unibody was awesome, MagSafe was really cool
15" MacBook Pro Core 2 Duo — came out shortly after and this one was noticeably faster
17" MacBook Pro — wowzers, too big
15" Mac Book Pro Core i7 — at the time this was the fastest Mac notebook you could buy and worked well for me, but I also realized I wanted smaller/lighter and an external monitor for desktop use
13" MacBook Pro 2013 — this one lasted me almost 7 years (allowing me to get around the shitty KB era) since its Core i7 was fast, I got it with lots of memory, and I eventually added a super fast SSD (made all the difference in the world — this is where I started hating HDDs)
Mac mini 2015 — purchased this little guy while in Osaka, worked well for me as a home media server and even used it remotely for number crunching when my work Macs were overloaded
13" MacBook Pro 2020 — the last Intel Mac I ever owned, felt like far too little upgrade after 7 years in terms of power, but it was thin and light (and I liked the idea of 4x TB3 to rule them all)
14" MacBook Pro M1 Pro — no longer so thin or light, but holy cow what a beast in terms of CPU power, and the screen and speakers are the best I’ve ever had on a portable Mac, absolutely love it!
These days I only have very few of those left. Most in storage. I bet I missed one or the other in that list. Should have kept receipts. 
