Apple //c, Apple Monitor II, and Apple ImageWriter II/2 dot matrix printer back in the rad 80s. Well, technically a family computer since others used it.
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Same. Cost me about $4,000 and then I bought a 768k RAM upgrade (which was several hundred dollars IIRC). It ran Appleworks like a dream.
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A IIci, purchased at the PX in Frankfurt, Germany, back around 1991-ish. Used original Macs, probably the 512 version, a couple of times at a newspaper job around 1984-85.
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In 1992 I bought an LCII and a LaserWriter LS for my office, and a PB100 and StyleWriter II for home.
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An SE, which I bought, I think, in late 1988. I sold it almost immediately, replacing it with an SE/30 which I kept and used for a long time.
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Mac Plus, back in the mid-80s
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First Apple product I bought was probably the hardcover official Apple HyperCard guide.
First device I bought was a PowerBook 180.
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Original “skinny Mac” in 1984…
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My father had a ][+ at his work that he let me use if I came in to visit for the day.
The first one I owned was a Mac IIcx that was my college graduation present. I had been firmly in the DOS camp for my first three years of college, but I was a math major and while working on my senior thesis discovered that Textures from Blue Sky Research was so far ahead of any DOS implemention of LaTeX that I had to go Apple from then on. (I didn’t last more than a year in grad school in math, but I’ve stayed on the platform ever since.)
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SE/30 with 4 MB RAM and a 40 MB hard disk, along with an ImageWriter II that had a color ribbon. Total cost: a little over $3,600 with a student discount in 1989 money. I was about to graduate college, and that $3,600 was every penny that I had saved from delivering newspapers as a kid.
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1/3 of an original Macintosh 128K.
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I bought a second-hand Apple ][+
I wanted the Apple][e… and did a 16K ram upgrade which resulted in 8 little pin pricks of blood in my finger. So from 48K to 64K…woot! Also had twin 5.25" drives and 80column card but lack of color composite monitor…alas it was green phosphor. Wizardry, Knight of Diamonds, Choplifter, Apple Panic, and not really understanding the potential.
While not owning, I worked on an SE30 for printing, then a ][ci, then a ][Ć’x, and eventually bought a Macintosh Quadra 800 tower.
Somewhere in those, I also owned an Amiga 500…which was great with graphics and I was starting into 3D animation. Then I got into PC and Targa graphics…Apple couldn’t compete and most animation software was on the PC or SGI workstations.
Its in storage, but I have a Mac SE that boots and the Imagewriter that a Tidbits member graciously sent me. Thank you!
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Tricked out Apple IIe, 128K RAM, dual floppy drive, color monitor and Imagewriter. So awesome!!
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The first one I owned was my beloved IIci, in late 1991. I had to take out a loan from our company 401K plan to buy it and the $175 Extended II keyboard. I felt like I was abusing a puppy when I finally left it at an ecycling event in front of Tekserve.
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Macintosh 128K. Later upgraded by having soldered-in memory modules replaced by larger ones yielding a 512k pseudo-Fat Mac.
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An Apple //c. My parents bought it for me, along with an external floppy drive, green-mono monitor and an Apple Scribe printer, which I used all throughout high school (mid-80’s).
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I used Apple I and Apple II in school but the first one I owned was the very first Mac 128 with an ImageWriter.
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My first Apple product was an original 128K Mac, which I bought from a colleague at work who was upgrading to a MacPlus. I immediately did the Apple upgrade to 512K. Since the MacPlus was introduced in January 1986, this must have happened in the late winter of 1986.
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Me too, but I* replaced the soldered-in memory modules with sockets.
edit 4/2: I was making an assumption that you replaced the modules with larger soldered in modules, but you didn’t actually say that.
* actually I asked a friend who worked at Boeing to do that part, they had machines that made it easy
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