Evendays

After 5 years with my Mac SE, a good friend (and supporter) from Austin started looking for a new portable for me. At a Sunday evening church service, he ran across someone who could get an Mac PowerBook 520 for only $1000.00 in March of ‘95. It was a great mobile machine and had a connection for a 17” monitor for use on my desk. It had a track pad and a 160 Mb hard drive, and it ran at 25 MHz, waaaaay faster than my old SE.

I took th PB 520 everywhere, especially when I was teaching English is businesses. I’ll never forget the manager of a French bank walking in on me before class and saying, “That is certainly not a PC.” “How did you know?” “It’s got style,” he replied. I just smiled. Not only were my sermons getting better, but I could work on them anywhere, able to digitalize a thought faster than you could say QUERTZ. And my MacBible program still worked on it.

The PB 520 sold me on mobile computing and I promised myself I’d never go back to desktop computers.

Well, never say never…