A quiz for all you Mac old timers
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From: Steven Fisher on 24 Feb 2010 22:14 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 > Probably plain text, actually. > > Command-W > > Close window Probably not. Early versions didn't have a close, right? You just opened another document and the first would close. > > Command-U > > I dont know Underline. > > Command-O > > open Outline. Steve
From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Kir=E1ly?= on 24 Feb 2010 22:43 nospam <nospam(a)nospam.invalid> wrote: > > 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. <slaps forehead> Yeah, totally! I had forgotten all about that one. -- K. Lang may your lum reek.
From: nospam on 25 Feb 2010 00:15 In article <michelle-E1E0DE.22004624022010(a)news.eternal-september.org>, Michelle Steiner <michelle(a)michelle.org> wrote: > Back then, all upgrades to the system were free until (I think) the first > system with multifinder. It stayed at $50 until System 7, when it went up > to $100, and remained there until Mac OS X was released at $129. That > remained the price until Mac OS X 10.6, which reduced the price to $29. > I'm going by memory on this, so I may have some details wrong. close:) it was free through system 7, however, you could buy an 'official' version if you wanted one. system 7 came in a fancy box of 7 floppies and physical documentation. i think there was a cd version of it too but that was not as common. system 7.1 is when paid only systems began. system 6 was on 4 floppies and earlier versions were 1 or 2 floppies, so it wasn't a big deal to copy them and it was common to visit an apple dealer where they'd copy it for you. there wasn't really an internet, and i don't remember if apple allowed bbs systems to post the files. system 1 fit on a single 400k floppy with space left over for macwrite *and* mapaint, as well as space for some documents. finder and system were around 150k or so.
From: Geoffrey S. Mendelson on 25 Feb 2010 00:59 nospam wrote: > it was free through system 7, however, you could buy an 'official' > version if you wanted one. system 7 came in a fancy box of 7 floppies > and physical documentation. i think there was a cd version of it too > but that was not as common. system 7.1 is when paid only systems began. > > system 6 was on 4 floppies and earlier versions were 1 or 2 floppies, > so it wasn't a big deal to copy them and it was common to visit an > apple dealer where they'd copy it for you. there wasn't really an > internet, and i don't remember if apple allowed bbs systems to post the > files. Yes there was an internet and you could get the updates from FTP. Bear in mind that an 800k disk image was enourmous in those days, so few people did. User groups could get the disks directly from Apple and could make copies for their members. Groups that have such disks can still legally do so. They also could post their disk images on BBS and ftp sites (and later FTP sites) until around 2003 when Apple asked them all to take them down. System 7 was sold in a box set for $99, but there were ways around it. If you had a CD-ROM drive (very expensive and rare in those days), you could buy a single copy of Apple's Develop magazine with it on the included CD for $10. As far as I remember there were no restrictions on making copies and handing them out to your friends. System 7.1 was different. It included software not owned by Apple, and was only sold. It never was or is available for download, however if you searched the web, you could find copies for download outside of the US and the reach of Apple copyright lawyers. I have never seen a System 7 CD, except for the Develop ones (which were not bootable). AFAIK the first retail CD was System 7.6. There were System 7.5 CDs sold with computers, but they were specific to the computer they were sold with. BTW, the System 7.6 CD (copy) I have, has a bootable system, an installer and 20 floppy images on it. From what I remember, it mounts and installs from the floppy images as needed. Geoff -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, Jerusalem, Israel gsm(a)mendelson.com N3OWJ/4X1GM New word I coined 12/13/09, "Sub-Wikipedia" adj, describing knowledge or understanding, as in he has a sub-wikipedia understanding of the situation. i.e possessing less facts or information than can be found in the Wikipedia.
From: nospam on 25 Feb 2010 01:12
In article <slrnhoc46r.h1l.gsm(a)cable.mendelson.com>, Geoffrey S. Mendelson <gsm(a)cable.mendelson.com> wrote: > Yes there was an internet and you could get the updates from FTP. Bear in mind > that an 800k disk image was enourmous in those days, so few people did. technically there was an internet, but it wasn't anything like it is now. very few people were on the 'net and even fewer knew where to ftp the images. it was also via slow modems. > User groups could get the disks directly from Apple and could make copies > for their members. Groups that have such disks can still legally do so. > They also could post their disk images on BBS and ftp sites (and later > FTP sites) until around 2003 when Apple asked them all to take them down. that was *far* more common. > System 7.1 was different. It included software not owned by Apple, and > was only sold. It never was or is available for download, however if you > searched the web, you could find copies for download outside of the US > and the reach of Apple copyright lawyers. you can do that for pretty much anything... |