{"id":151,"date":"2011-10-06T18:55:56","date_gmt":"2011-10-06T22:55:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rgdaniel.com\/gravitas\/?p=151"},"modified":"2011-10-06T18:57:44","modified_gmt":"2011-10-06T22:57:44","slug":"mac-vs-pc-dont-get-me-started","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rgdaniel.com\/gravitas\/2011\/10\/mac-vs-pc-dont-get-me-started\/","title":{"rendered":"Mac vs PC? Don’t Get Me Started!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m a PC guy these days. That’s entirely a result of work-related compatibility issues and, since my retirement, budget and… well inertia <\/em>I suppose.<\/p>\n

But recent events<\/a> got me reminiscing about my own introduction to personal computing. I was not a hugely early adapter to home computing, other than a brief foray into the world of the Texas Instruments TI-99\/4a <\/a>(a Commodore 64 contemporary I think)… but somewhere around the mid 90’s I discovered digital MIDI-based musical instruments, particularly drums and keyboards. Now I could play drums in an apartment! Exciting stuff for a guy who’d sold his soul <\/del>drum kit in 1977 to go to computer programming school…<\/p>\n

Anyway, I soon reached the limits of the built-in sequencer on my TD-7 drum unit, and I asked the guy at Saved By Technology<\/em><\/a>, where I bought the MIDI gear, to advise me on a bigger sequencer. He suggested I just buy a computer, or I’d soon be frustrated by the inherent limitations of any hardware-based sequencer.<\/p>\n

So I asked around amongst my colleagues, mainframe computer types like me: “Mac or PC?”<\/strong><\/p>\n

This would be somewhere around Win 95 \/ OS 7.1 era… Lots of hoopla about Win95… The few people at work with PC’s (most of us were on so-called “dumb terminals” ) were still on Win 3.1. I remember finding it quite interesting that while 2 out of 3 recommended the PC, anyone who had used both types would recommend the Mac. Mind you, none of them were doing MIDI sequencing, so in the end, the Saved By Technology<\/em> guy’s recommendation carried the most weight, and soon I had my very own Power Mac 7100<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Almost all of what would eventually become my first (and probably only) officially-released CD was written and recorded within a few months of getting up and running on that machine, and getting my gear working with it.<\/p>\n

While the whole Mac or PC debate has these days become tiresome and about as interesting as “Coke vs Pepsi”, I did go through a period of Mac evangelism in the Nineties, as a result of my early success and enthusiasm on that platform.<\/p>\n

So yeah, thank you Steve Jobs.<\/p>\n

related post: Gravitas Studio Setup<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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