Things I don't miss about the old Mac OS (and things of that era)
I was reading a rather inaccurate post about the history of the Mac OS recently, and it brought up memories of the various different OSes and pieces of software and hardware I've dealt with in the past. By the way, Wikipedia has a pretty good history of this stuff.
Here are the big things that I really don't miss at all:
- floppy disks
- getting to file servers from the Chooser
- having to restart my machine to turn off RAMDoubler so I could play games
- the System 7 look
- running things in Classic (which I haven't done for years now, thankfully)
- the rattling noises that my PowerTower's metal case would make
- all of my failed attempts to get Rhapsody and the DP's working on my PowerTower
- having to reboot to OS 9 to watch a DVD
- having to turn off my machine and swapping my optical drive so I could burn a CD or watch a DVD (back before we shipped combo drives)
- SCSI
- blinking alerts in the application menu (back when it was on the right)
- my first weeks ever trying to get sample code _to even compile_ for OS 7
Things I miss a little:
- having edges on all of my windows :)
- hacking things with ResEdit
- macsbug
- having time to play games
- having time to play around with control panels, extensions, change icons, etc
- finding the cool, weird Apple apps like Gerbils(?) and Project X (I think that's what it was called... possibly something with 'sauce' in the name... the 3D web navigation tool, where shift moved your forward, and option moved you back)
1 Comments:
At 8:59 PM, November 03, 2005, Anonymous said…
Wow, Gerbils... that brings back memories. What was that even supposed to be demoing? Quickdraw 3D?
I don't remember which name came first, but the 3D navigation tool you are think of was called Hotsauce/Project X.
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