I like to say that that computer changed my life. I also learned enough to get a per diem job as a computer applications instructor, so I quit my “day job” to pursue a writing career.
I taught myself everything I needed to know about that machine and had a BBS up and running within a month.
It was one of the first Macs to offer a color monitor option and it ran at whopping 16 MHz. Back in those days, the Mac IIcx was hot. I needed a hard disk and a bit more processing power than the Apple //c offered. One of the reasons I wanted it was so that I could start a BBS. My previous computer had been an Apple //c and the Mac was a huge step up for me.
I got my start with Macs back in 1989 with a Mac II cx. One of the reasons I got into the business of writing about computers is because I thought that the things you could do with computers were very…well, cool. I rediscover the cool things I can do with my Mac.
