A quiz for all you Mac old timers
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From: nospam on 24 Feb 2010 17:18 In article <bAhhn.66683$Db2.18911(a)edtnps83>, Kir�ly <me(a)home.spamsucks.ca> wrote: > Michelle Steiner <michelle(a)michelle.org> wrote: > > > i remember outline text. hideous. there was another one that was worse, > > > wasn't there? shadow? > > > > Shadow and Outline combined was the worst. > > I thought it was the coolest thing ever when I first saw it - back in > junior high school. right up there with the san francisco font.
From: Erik Richard Sørensen on 24 Feb 2010 18:53 Michelle Steiner wrote: > Erik Richard Sørensen <NOSPAM(a)NOSPAM.dk> wrote: >>>> Can't remember if they are different in MacPaint. - My OS 9.x machine is >>>> already closed down for the night.:-) >>> Your OS 9 machine wouldn't help; I was asking about the original system >>> that shipped with the 128K Mac. >> Well, you didn't mention that in your OP, and when so, > > What part of "In the original Macintosh System," didn't you understand? The missing numbering... I have all system from 0,9 and up and they all have a number... - And since you mean the System 0,9x/1.0 it can't be MacWrite II/Pro either, since these two requires at least System 6.0. - I have a MacWrite 5.0 but nearly never use it, though it infact runs fine under OS 9.x, when booted into OS 9.x - not in classic mode under OS X. - And sure I don't remember the commands for the MW 5.0... Cheers, Erik Richard -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Erik Richard Sørensen, Member of ADC, <mac-manNOSP(a)Mstofanet.dk> NisusWriter - The Future In Multilingual Text Processing - www.nisus.com OpenOffice.org - The Modern Productivity Solution - www.openoffice.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
From: David Empson on 24 Feb 2010 19:48 Erik Richard S�rensen <NOSPAM(a)NOSPAM.dk> wrote: > Michelle Steiner wrote: > > Erik Richard S�rensen <NOSPAM(a)NOSPAM.dk> wrote: > >>>> Can't remember if they are different in MacPaint. - My OS 9.x machine is > >>>> already closed down for the night.:-) > >>> Your OS 9 machine wouldn't help; I was asking about the original system > >>> that shipped with the 128K Mac. > >> Well, you didn't mention that in your OP, and when so, > > > > What part of "In the original Macintosh System," didn't you understand? > > The missing numbering... I have all system from 0,9 and up and they all > have a number... - And since you mean the System 0,9x/1.0 it can't be > MacWrite II/Pro either, since these two requires at least System 6.0. As Michelle wrote in the original post: "In the original Macintosh System, Finder, Macwrite, and/or Macpaint, what did these keyboard shortcuts do?" MacWrite II or Pro are not the "original" MacWrite so they are irrelevant to this discussion, as is System 6.0. -- David Empson dempson(a)actrix.gen.nz
From: Tim McNamara on 24 Feb 2010 22:00 In article <michelle-67DFED.08113324022010(a)news.eternal-september.org>, Michelle Steiner <michelle(a)michelle.org> wrote: > In article > <8fe65ff0-a33c-4469-8963-ad671d4f38bd(a)g28g2000yqh.googlegroups.com>, > commiebastard <oraclmaster(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > What qualifies as "old timer"? Anything pre OS X? > > In the context of the question, it meant anyone who used the original > Macintosh System. The very original? I bought my first Mac in 1986, a 512Ke (which cost twice as much in dollars as my 2005 iBook and much more than that when corrected for inflation). I don't remember what the System number was but googling around it was either 3.1 or 3.2, probably the latter as I'd guess I bought it after June. I added another 512K of RAM (with, IIRC, a big whopping board from Dove which came with an SCSI port cleverly replacing the batter door), an external 800K floppy, a Kensington fan with power switching and a 40 MB hard drive. That was a tough little computer. And, jeez, that was 24 years ago!!!! I'm suddenly a bit nostalgic. Talk among yourselves. I used that Mac until I bought a PB145B in last 1993. I eventually gave the 512Ke to a friend's son/budding geek/now full time programmer. He played around with it for a few years and then gave it to his aunt who donated it to a convent. The convent used it for word processing until at least 2000. Probably still boots up, it if hasn't been landfilled. -- "I wear the cheese, it does not wear me."
From: Tim McNamara on 24 Feb 2010 22:02
In article <jwolf6589-813D48.05591924022010(a)nntp.charter.net>, John <jwolf6589(a)NOSPAMgmail.com> wrote: > In article <michelle-DDE1E1.16380023022010(a)news.eternal-september.org>, > Michelle Steiner <michelle(a)michelle.org> wrote: > > > In the original Macintosh System, Finder, Macwrite, and/or Macpaint, what > > did these keyboard shortcuts do? (Some of them did different things in > > different environments, though.) > > > > Command-P > > > > Command-W > > Close window > > > Command-U > > I dont know Underline selected text, IIRC. > > Command-O > > open I think that converted selected text from a solid font to an outline font. But that was a very long time ago and my first Mac system was a couple iterations later than the one Michelle is talking about. -- "I wear the cheese, it does not wear me." |