[Big Mac]

You must answer me these questions three:

1. What was the first screen shot that you remember seeing of OS X (including Rhapsody), and was it an official Apple screen shot?

2. What was the earliest release of OS X that you used (including Rhapsody), and on which model Mac?

3. When was your first Kernel Panic, and on which version of OS X (including Rhapsody)?

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1. The first screen shot I remember seeing was from a very early internal build of Rhapsody. It was a camera shot of single user mode, featuring a kernel panic. Source: Mac OS Rumors.

2. OS X 10.0 on my iBook 466 (which, since I am upstairs, I am typing this message on). My copy had come pre-ordered from Apple, with shipping kindly upgraded free of charge; I installed it as soon as I had the chance and have not looked back since.

3. My first Kernel Panic occurred on my first day with 10.0. I was screwing around with iDisk, which I had never had the opportunity to use previously because my 8600 only ran/runs 8.6.

[sugar_coated]

Nostalgia can sometimes catch an amnesia

[nerd]

I didn't know there was going to be a test on this.

1. I don't remember this one.

2. Rhapsody was the first on my 8500. I didn't leave it on there for more then a week probably. The first one I really used a lot was the public beta.

3. If I remember this one right my first kernel panic with M-Audio drivers and 10.2 but I'm sure I must have had one before that. Just don't remember.

[ajprice]

1. The developer release screenshots when OS X was first announced at whichever expo it was, with the dock that had solid square icons all with different backgrounds.

2. 10.1 that came installed on my G4, bought in August 2001.

3. On my work Mac, a G4 800 quicksilver that didn't have enough memory and kept crapping out (256MB). Originally it gave the black screen with white text that looked a bit like DOS, since it was upgraded to 10.3 it gave the grey screen with the 'You must restart your computer...' warning over the big power logo. Then it had a 512MB RAM stick put in it and all is fine now.

EDIT: My 900th post!
100 to go...

[starman]

I still have my Rhapsody CDs.

[chris v]

1. I don't recall ever seeing it on an actual screen, but it was one of Job's demos of 10.0 a couple months before the release (probably the Jan. Macworld) where I first witnessed it's Radiant Glory.

2. I installed the Radiant Glory of 10.1 retail on my Cube the day it was released. I watched 10.0 in the OS X forum (when I could actually access it, that is-- remember those days? loading... loading... ) somewhat intently, but never installed it.

3. I had the Radient Glory of enough panics with 10.1 that I can't remember the circumstances. They were pretty regular-- I'm sure I had one within a few days, so it was probably on the Cube, since I didn't install it at work for another couple of weeks. 10.1 never seemed to need a real reason to panic.

4. We've come a long way.

5. WAHT are you looking here for? There is still no #5.

[mitchell_pgh]

1. What was the first screen shot that you remember seeing of OS X (including Rhapsody), and was it an official Apple screen shot?

Rhapsody DR2 it was in a powerpoint at Carnegie Mellon

2. What was the earliest release of OS X that you used (including Rhapsody), and on which model Mac?

Rhapsody DR3 on a beige 233MHz G3 tower. Basically I used it for a few hours to check it out (a guy from Virginia Tech gave it to me after I signed a sheet)

3. When was your first Kernel Panic, and on which version of OS X (including Rhapsody)?

OS 10.2

[saddino]

1. I saw Rhapsody demoed live at WWDC97, pre-developer releases. I just remember being pissed that the only native stratgey was Yellow Box and how there was no way in hell we were going to rewrite our huge C++ apps in Objective-C or Java. Very depressing day. Contrast this with WWDC98 where we erupted in cheers in hearing Steve announce Carbon. IMHO, Carbon really saved OS X: Adobe and others had made clear that legacy C++ apps, i.e. every major Mac application, were not going to be rewritten.

2. At the end of the WWDC99 keynote everyone received a copy of Rhapsody DR1. It wouldn't load on my Powerbook, but I installed it at work on a B&W G3.

3. Later in 99 our company bumped up our G3s to G4s by upgrading the CPU (a move that Apple had tried to disable in firmware and caused our company a major PR disaster exposing that it could be done). Rhapsody KP'd all the time, but only because the system was unstable (we had to add our own heatsink to deal with the extra G4 wattage, but things were always iffy).

[historylme]

I forgot the questions... hold on.

OKay.

1. I saw it on the developers keynote (I think?) on TechTV's the Screensavers. It looked cool, I thought.

2. First release used was 10.0. I tried it for a bit (on my Og. Imac), but thought it was too crazy and unstable, whent back to 9.1. I later made the choice, since 10 was the way of the future, that I might as well start learning it.

3. After a few months, returned to it and lived through till 10.1. 10.0 would get the beach ball of death everyday, and I had to restart a few times (no big-ie, 9.1 was the same if you had too many apps. I was used to it).

10.1 Was when I began to appreaciate Os X for the first time. Now, I'm shocked if I see 9.2 on a computer.

[Millennium]

1) The earliest screenshots of which I'm aware featured nothing but a white-on-black Terminal on a purple background, with a sort of grey rectangle (not Platinum, though) as a titlebar. I'm pretty sure this was all that it could display at that time.

2) My first attempt at getting Rhapsody to run was DR2 on a PowerTower Pro. I got into the aforementioned white-on-black Terminal, but the system crashed before booting was finished. All told, nothing special.

My first successful run was DR4 (legitimately obtained, I might add) on a Beige G3. I even did the trick to cause it to revert to a Platinum-esque appearance, though I found I didn't like this much and went back to Aqua.

3) My first actual KP was in either 10.0 or 10.1, and I got it while trying to run Netscape 4.somethingorother in Classic mode.

[OpenStep]

Does "prelude to Rhapsody" count? Earliest release on a Mac I used was Rhapsody DR1 (Power Mac 8500/120 I think). First and only kernel panic was in 10.0 I think when they just added burning support in iTunes and my Iomega external USB CD-RW froze. I unplugged it and my Cube went into a kernel panic.

[Big Mac]

Thank you for the contributions, everyone. The most interesting thing that I have found in the responses is that most of the respondents had much worse experiences with early versions of OS X than I. 10.0 was actually highly usable for me, and I have only had three KPs (two on my iBook and one a week ago on my G5). OS X has just kept getting better and better, but it was great from the start of 10.0, albeit a little slow.

[goMac]

1) The first screenshot I saw of Mac OS X was Rhapsody DR2 in a December 1998 (?) MacAddict.
2) The first version of Mac OS X I used was Mac OS X DP4 on a Blue and White G3.
3) The first panic I got on Mac OS X was on the before mentioned Mac OS X DP4 on a Blue and White G3.

[turtle777]

So where do I find the correct answers ?

-t

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Originally posted by Big Mac:
You must answer me these questions three:

1. What was the first screen shot that you remember seeing of OS X (including Rhapsody), and was it an official Apple screen shot?

2. What was the earliest release of OS X that you used (including Rhapsody), and on which model Mac?

3. When was your first Kernel Panic, and on which version of OS X (including Rhapsody)?

1. Sometime in early 2001 after commenting about windows xp's progress, someone showed me a few screenshots of 10.0(?) or the PB.. can't remember anymore

2. 10.0.4 on my g4 QS when I got it home

3. Within the first few days I'm sure, I was always trying to do something that was not done often, like using internet sharing in 10.1 or having an isub in 10.0.4