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Macs: the ages
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(Last edited by kick52; Aug 20, 2005 at 11:10 AM.
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Neither has Sladdot's site design. 
"This is a smaple document."
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What gets me is that the OS used to be stored on floppy disks. Now it occupies over 2 gigs!
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If I had a signature, it would look something like this
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Ahhh, OS 8.X. I remember those days on my rev A iMac. What fun.
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System 7 - the golden age sigh, I miss those good ald days
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Hey, back then they could turn menu blinking off!
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When a true genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him. -- Jonathan Swift.
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What is this slashdot that you speak of? ..... /.
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OS 8.1 was awsome. It took up so little system resources and woks well with the 603e/v and even the G3. OS 9.x on the G3 flys.
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"Life is the crummiest book I ever read. There isn't a hook, just a lot of cheap shots, pictures to shock, and characters an amateur would never dream up." (Bad Religion)
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You guys are joking right? Compared to OS X. OS 7 & 8 are crap
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yes, they were really kick ass OS's then.
love your signature, btw NeilCharter
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Originally Posted by kick52
yes, they were really kick ass OS's then.
love your signature, btw NeilCharter
You're right at the time they were. I used to manage the macs in my old lab and transitioned the machine from OS 7 through to 9. With each new iteration, there would be an improvement in stability and usability, but at the cost of some serious loss in speed for legacy machines.
The minute I started playing with OS X Beta, I knew Apple had made the right decision. Even then I felt that there was a significant change in the maturity of the system. Not at the user level at that time because so much was unfinished, but the way the OS was separated from the GUI.
I've never forgotten how my old Mac Classic crashed in the middle of piecing together the chapters of my thesis for printing and going through final corrections. My fault for not saving often enough, but I ended up having to start all over again. Took me two hours to complete (around 3AM!!) and a lot to typos slipped through the cracks.
Crashes at the most inopportune times were the worst thing about the pre-OS X days. I'm so glad I don't have to experience those these days. Don't get me wrong, OS X isn't perfect, but the stability of the system is something I have come to rely on, especially with long projects like writing DVDs etc.
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Yo NeilCharter:
By definition you have a signature, so that trumps the syntax of your conditional clause, thus making it a false statement. Although, there is a slice of truth in it in that it is a 2nd Conditional (hypothetical).
Anyway, I agree, I don't miss those crashes with the black bomb error window and all, as well as the quirky printing. However, once tweaked, one could significantly reduce crashes. The two biggies were purging the system of dormant extensions and customizing the amount of RAM allocated to each program.
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"Life is the crummiest book I ever read. There isn't a hook, just a lot of cheap shots, pictures to shock, and characters an amateur would never dream up." (Bad Religion)
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Originally Posted by chris v
Hey, back then they could turn menu blinking off!
For real. 5 years and we still have to use the crap. I really wish they would bring that back—as in let me turn it the flip off.
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Originally Posted by NeilCharter
You guys are joking right? Compared to OS X. OS 7 & 8 are crap
Your mixing apples and oranges with that analogy (sorry couldn't resist). Comparing a now modern OS with one that's several years old isn't a fair comparison. Those OS' where pretty advanced back then, so much so MS copied them (and continues to steal innovation).
That said there's nothing wrong to reminisce. There was definitely something exciting back in the early days of computers, something that is now missing (maybe I'm just getting to be an old fart). Its like your first car, you always remember that, and those early computers had a ton of potential that we were aching to uncover. Most of that discovery for us is done, and its now a tool (and a toy at times).
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I still us OS 7.6.1 (the best of the 7s in my opinion) and OS X together on one desk, every single day. I love both of them.
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...to continue my previous post. 7.6.1 really doesn't crash that much, unless you're doing internet-related stuff. Then you're at it's mercy. But for typing reports in Word or making PowerPoint presentations, it really almost never crashes on me.
And that's pretty much all I do with it.
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Frankly, System 7.1 was nearly as stable for me as Mac OS X is today. And it had Teh Snappy™ on a 68040...
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