With Steve Jobs keynote at Macworld tomorrow....
How many people have ever used system 6 or even system 7?
How about system 8?
They were the hot new OS when they came out. System 7 was a huge improvement from 6. One could add fonts without the font mover utility.
How long ago did you get your first Mac?
How many people have ever used system 6 or even system 7?
How about system 8?
They were the hot new OS when they came out. System 7 was a huge improvement from 6. One could add fonts without the font mover utility.
How long ago did you get your first Mac?
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Re: Who has used system 6
Mon, January 14, 2008 - 10:03 PMMy first mac was a Classic with 6 installed, but I took it up to 7.1 as soon as I could. Shortly after that I started repair jobs and got a chance to work on System 3.2 machines, sys 4 and 5. -
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Re: Who has used system 6
Tue, January 15, 2008 - 3:42 AMThe first one I bought was a PPC 7500/100
The first one in our family was a IIc
The first one in our school that I used was a IIe or a IIplus
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Re: Who has used system 6
Tue, January 15, 2008 - 5:51 AMi was watching a Seinfeld rerun yesterday.
and i couldn't keep my eye off the old Macintosh classic on his desk...
it wasn't that long ago 1990-1994, what was that an 9 inch screen?! LOL
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Re: Who has used system 6
Tue, January 15, 2008 - 6:36 AMMy first Mac was a 512 KE (the fancy kind that could read double-sided 800K floppies) and I had to have two different boot floppies. One had system 3.02 to compose documents and another had a version that had the driver software for my StyleWriter II so that I could print if need be. System 7's modular design was a MAJOR improvement, although as a computer novice I didn't appreciate why until much later. -
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Re: Who has used system 6
Wed, January 16, 2008 - 11:48 PMI forget.... I think mine was 3-something or maybe 4 -- running on one of those machines where you had to boot off the floppy (either a 512 or whatever came right after that -- what was that, the Mac Plus?)... It's all faded into the mists of time..... I remember it was really cool when I got an actual hard drive that would hold my OS & software & files even! And it was HUGE!!! 20MB! I couldn't imagine how I would EVER fill up that much space...
I also remember publishing a magazine laid out using PageMaker 1.0 right after it first came out -- yeah, that was a while ago....
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Re: Who has used system 6
Fri, January 18, 2008 - 1:11 PMI had a refurbished mac Plus with the external hard drive - without that - you could only use the floppy disk for data.
This wasn't mine - but it looked just like this www.blakespot.com/macplus.jpg
My roommate had a IIci - boy i was jealous. :)
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Re: Who has used system 6
Sun, January 20, 2008 - 8:47 AMMine was a Mac II SE. Two floppy drives, and I thought I was hot shit when I added my own internal 30MB SCSI hard-drive. I think I was running System 7 at the time. It was a great machine. -
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Re: Who has used system 6
Sun, January 20, 2008 - 3:05 PMMac Classic and my first oops was putting the start-up folder in the trash to make more room. It was my girlfriend's (now wifey) comp that she was letting me use and I thought I broke it.
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Re: Who has used system 6
Mon, February 25, 2008 - 11:05 AMStill got my system 4 disks. -
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Re: Who has used system 6
Wed, March 5, 2008 - 11:12 PM..Phil,
..lol ..some of us have used sys's 2.7 - 9.x and still do..
7.1 was a lousy operating system, btw..6.8 was the best of that generation..
visit us at a tribe for mac users who have questions or need tech support with their computers, and for mac techs who would like to offer their expertise. mactech.tribe.net Here's a tip ; www.macattic.com 's Dr. Tom Adams knows more about them early OSes than a n y of us.. gizmodo.com/gadgets/anci...cs-313806.php
alo'ha ,
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Re: Who has used system 6
Thu, March 6, 2008 - 10:05 PMFor the really old mac heads here. i found a Lisa on a bus bench in Berkeley. It had a note on it saying "free computer" It has a 20 meg HD and two whole megs of ram. I think it still starts. Needs some work before I plug it in again but when i brought it back to my work that day, it ran Word and system 6 so it may have been changed to a mac plus inside.
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Low End Mac Profiles
Fri, March 7, 2008 - 9:45 AMFor Lisa info I would start at www.lowendmac.com/lisa/index.shtml -
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Re: Low End Mac Profiles
Sun, March 9, 2008 - 7:55 PMFat mac, 1985. . .and I really miss pagemaker, wish I could find a copy that would work with my G5.
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