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Oneota · Mar 24, 2010, 01:40 PM

Mac OS X Hits Stores This Weekend

They grow up so fast... *sniff*

King Bob On The Cob · Mar 24, 2010, 04:36 PM

Originally Posted by Oneota

Mac OS X Hits Stores This Weekend

They grow up so fast... *sniff*

Ugh. You reminded me of OS X 10.0.

Go burn in a firepit somewhere. Along with every copy of that foresaken OS.

Oneota · Mar 24, 2010, 05:28 PM

Originally Posted by King Bob On The Cob

Go burn in a firepit somewhere.

Well, eat shit and die to you, too!

The Godfather · Mar 24, 2010, 09:05 PM

Let's all boot 8.5!

ajprice · Mar 25, 2010, 05:27 AM

Originally Posted by Oneota

Mac OS X Hits Stores This Weekend

They grow up so fast... *sniff*

Eriamjh · Mar 26, 2010, 05:38 PM

The stripes! Can't... stand... the... stripes...!

macaddict0001 · Mar 26, 2010, 08:28 PM

mmmm, aqualicious.

imitchellg5 · Mar 26, 2010, 08:59 PM

Found this on my Flickr:

Compared of course to something now like this:

Brien · Mar 26, 2010, 09:04 PM

Ah, the memories.

Jim Paradise · Mar 26, 2010, 10:40 PM

Not that Apple hasn't been doing wonderful things to OS X all these years, but the beta days and 10.0 were really exciting times. If I recall, I signed up on the forums to discuss issues that some people were having with their G4 400s and the beta. The initial music player was such a stark departure from the AppleCD Player and getting SoundJam to work in OS X! seemed so cool at the time. Although the early versions had plenty of issues, seeing pictures of the beta and the 10.0 brings back great memories from a fun time.

driven · Mar 29, 2010, 11:29 PM

I remember it well. OSX (10.0) is what finally got me to switch to the Mac. I remember fondly buying my G4 Cube in anticipation of it. (I still have it as a memento of my early Mac days.)

Big Mac · Apr 1, 2010, 08:00 AM

10.0 was a very fun time. I took the plunge on my iBook as soon as I got a copy, even though it was slow and very much incomplete. OS X was such a breath of fresh air, for as much as I loved OS 9 it became so dated and lacking in life by the late 1990s. There was nowhere for it to go, and it was clearly a dead end. It's just too bad Apple had not gotten NeXTified that much earlier - think of where we'd be today.

driven · Apr 1, 2010, 08:09 AM

Big Mac, I totally agree.

Speaking of NeXT, my G4 Cube with OSX became the NeXT PC that I never had. :-)

angelmb · Apr 2, 2010, 07:59 AM

So… wouldn't it be ten years old ?

Mac OS X Server 1.0, released in 1999, was the first operating system released by Apple Computer based on their acquisition of NeXT.

Oneota · Apr 2, 2010, 08:46 AM

Originally Posted by angelmb

So… wouldn't it be ten years old ?

Mac OS X Server 1.0, released in 1999, was the first operating system released by Apple Computer based on their acquisition of NeXT.

I don't count that product, since it was really pretty half-baked, and definitely not intended for mass-consumption. Well, some would argue that even Mac OS X 10.0 wasn't really intended for mass-consumption, but it was a heckuva lot closer than Mac OS X Server 1.0.

lpkmckenna · Apr 2, 2010, 10:42 AM

I bought v10.0 too. I thought it was so exciting. I loved playing with the fonts and Dock. I remember the Dock was really responsive, which really stuck out with me because the window moving and resizing was soooo bad.

When v10.1 came out, I left OS 9 for good.

Art Vandelay · Apr 2, 2010, 12:33 PM

Mac OS X Server 1.0 and Mac OS X 10.0 are pretty different. MOSXS 1.0 was the Rhapsody OS. It was essentially NextStep ported to PowerPC with the Blue Box compatibility layer added. Mac OS X 10.0 and Server 10.1 (I don't think there was a 10.0 Server) added Carbon and Quartz among others. They basically went back rethought how they were going to go forward with NextStep and came up with what became 10.0 after Rhapsody was rejected by the developer community.

turtle777 · Apr 2, 2010, 01:39 PM

Originally Posted by lpkmckenna

When v10.1 came out, I left OS 9 for good.

Same here.

Got my iBook (Dual USB) in May or June 2001. Came with OS X 10.0. I initially used OS 9 for work, and OS X 10.0 to play around. Once 10.1 came out, I switched and never looked back to OS 9.

-t

angelmb · Apr 2, 2010, 03:53 PM

I don't count that product, since it was really pretty half-baked, and definitely not intended for mass-consumption. Well, some would argue that even Mac OS X 10.0 wasn't really intended for mass-consumption, but it was a heckuva lot closer than Mac OS X Server 1.0.

Mac OS X Server 1.0 and Mac OS X 10.0 are pretty different. MOSXS 1.0 was the Rhapsody OS. It was essentially NextStep ported to PowerPC with the Blue Box compatibility layer added. Mac OS X 10.0 and Server 10.1 (I don't think there was a 10.0 Server) added Carbon and Quartz among others. They basically went back rethought how they were going to go forward with NextStep and came up with what became 10.0 after Rhapsody was rejected by the developer community.

I know. I had Mac OS X Server 1.0 which I got as gift from a friend (ran great on a B&W G3) and DP4 from the newly NeXTified Apple, which was mind-blowing even on a Pismo.

I was just pointing out that there was a 'Mac OS X' available ten years ago… kinda nit picker though.

Lateralus · Apr 2, 2010, 09:47 PM

I came to the Mac with a Dual USB iBook shortly before 10.1 hit market, and what's funny is that I was lured in by OS 9, not any promise made by OS X. Even 10.1's release wasn't enough to really get me off of 9.

Salty · Apr 3, 2010, 09:21 PM

I loved OS 9... I wasn't really sold on OS X until X.2

abbaZaba · Apr 4, 2010, 03:17 PM

Originally Posted by imitchellg5

Found this on my Flickr:

Compared of course to something now like this:

is that even OSX? is it a Windows (possibly Linux distro) attempting to emulate the Aqua environment? either way, it looks horrid now but I remember loving it back in the day and going through the painstaking process of customizing my Windows computer to look like Aqua.

sek929 · Apr 4, 2010, 03:34 PM

Although OS9 ran like lightning on my, then, new PM G4 I still loved OS X the first time I used it. Full multitasking, IE5 no longer crashed the whole system, and on and on.

It wasn't until 10.2 that the 'snappiness' returned.

I still have my original 10.1 box too.

Oneota · Apr 4, 2010, 06:11 PM

Originally Posted by sek929

I still have my original 10.1 box too.

Heck, I've still got my Public Beta box!

imitchellg5 · Apr 4, 2010, 09:19 PM

Originally Posted by abbaZaba

is that even OSX? is it a Windows (possibly Linux distro) attempting to emulate the Aqua environment? either way, it looks horrid now but I remember loving it back in the day and going through the painstaking process of customizing my Windows computer to look like Aqua.

It's OS X Public Beta.

downinflames68 · Apr 4, 2010, 10:15 PM

I switched to OSX really late, around 10.2 or 10.3 Before that, it just seemed buggy, slower, and had less programs available for it.

Brien · Apr 5, 2010, 02:23 AM

Originally Posted by Oneota

Heck, I've still got my Public Beta box!

I've got 7.6 up through 10.6, mostly. Missing 8.0, 10.0 DPs & PB, 10.3, 10.5. Somehow ended up with a 10.0 DP2 disc. Dunno how that happened.