Forums | MacLife

Are posts being dropped? I could have sworn that last night 1 or 2 people posted after me, and the person who shows up as having the last post in the thread doesn't have a post showing...

Edit: after posting, the second page became available. Weird that it didn't show it before...

Last edited by akb825 (2005-05-30 12:06 pm)

Hmm..

iMac 233: 8.6 - 9.x - beta X - 10.0 - 10.1 - 10.2 - 10.3
PowerBook G4: 9.x - 10.0 10.1 - 10.2 - 10.3 - 10.4
PowerMac G5: 10.2 - 10.3 - 10.4

Of the differnt OS-es the worse was probalby the initial 9.2 release, and 10.2.
9.2 was horribly unstable so I ended up reinstalling 9.1 and keeping it till 9.2 was released.
10.2 was just slow. I mean 10.0 slow.
I dont know where people get the idiotic idea that 10.0 was a "half beta" release, for me it worked well, a lot of things vere midding yes, but the OS itself was complete and I remember using it for a full term.

W

Last edited by Short Circuit (2005-05-30 1:28 pm)

Scott wrote:

Wow.  There are only a few old fogies here.  It seems like most people came on board around 8. 
You guys missed the heady excitement of the new fangled multifinder.  Spotlight and Dashboard have nothing on it.

Well he did specify on the current Mac. It's doubtful that any Mac currently running a version of OSX could have been around much before that. I started with Mac OS 4.3, but that was on a Mac Plus. No chance of that running X.

In any event, this has to be the dumbest topic ever.

First mac that "mine" -

Mac OS 8.1 (came with)
MKLinux DR3 (dual boot)
Linux PPC 1999 (dual boot)
Mac OS 8.6 (best Mac OS it ran)
Linux From Scratch (tripple boot)
LinuxPPC 2000 (tripple boot)
Yellow Dog Champion Server 1.2
Yellow Dog Champion Server 2.0
Mac OS 9.2 (installed solely so I could install X)
Mac OS X Public Besta, 10.0, 10.1

That mac is now dead.

-=-
Current machines:

Current Workstation (homemade Athlon XP 2700+)
Red Hat 8.0
Linux From Scratch
Fedora Core 2
Fedora Core 3
Fedora Core 4, er, in a few days (running rawhide)
It also had Win XP Home on it for a little while

Current Laptop (IBM Thinkpad T20)
Has a Win 95 OEM code on the bottom.
I bought it with Win XP SP2 on it.
Currently runs Fedora Core 4 (er, in a few days - running rawhide)

Current Utility Server
Built it from spare parts and a used mobo/cpu
Currently has Fedora Core 4 (er, in a few days - running rawhide) -only OS on it.

Current Mac
Bought it for mom when it was brand spanking new, Ruby Red Summer 2000 iMac
Mom and Dad went Dell, so they gave it to me.
Shipped with OS 9, last Mac OS they installed was 9.2.2
Currently running Fedora Core 4 (er, in a few days - currently running rawhide)

My computer aside, I started out in the Mac world at OS 6 (version unknown). I know this because I remember how excited our computer person was at the coming of System 7!  At home it was 8.1, 8.5 through the last of the 9's.  Now I'm on 10.2.8 and pretty much stuck there for the meantime; no money (or "shrug" need) for extra ram or a more powerful computer to handle the newest OSes. Ah well...

Last edited by iZoe (2005-05-30 7:53 pm)

Scott wrote:

Wow.  There are only a few old fogies here.  It seems like most people came on board around 8. 
You guys missed the heady excitement of the new fangled multifinder.  Spotlight and Dashboard have nothing on it.

Those are the Macs that I've owned.

If we go way back we get to the original Mac OS that came with a 128k Mac. He later got upgraded to 512k of Ram and a 20mb external hard drive. You're right - the multifinder was a wonder of modern computing. The Font/DA mover was a marvel as well.

That Mac made it into system 6.

Then there was the IIci. I can't remember what it came with but it ended at 7.6

We also had a PowerBook 100 that I got sent off to college with. It started with system 6 and I think still has System 7.6 on it.

Last edited by Gipetto (2005-05-30 8:17 pm)

Gipetto wrote:

Beige G3 (now a G4, but owned by some guy in Japan) saw:
8.0 (factory) through Jaguar

Funny...
the 800mhz G4 Crescendo from my S900 is now owned by some guy in Japan, as well.

Scott wrote:

Wow.  There are only a few old fogies here.  It seems like most people came on board around 8. 
You guys missed the heady excitement of the new fangled multifinder.  Spotlight and Dashboard have nothing on it.

Well, if you want to look at all Macs:
My parents started out with a Mac Plus, but I was too young to know what system it had. We then got a IIvx, but once again I don't know what system it had.
Then the Macs that I got handed down to me:
LC 475 which had 7.1 on it.
PowerMac 7200 with 8.0 (came with 7.6), eventually installed the 8.1 update.
Then an iMac 400 with OS 9, 9.1, and 10.2, and a bit later an iMac 600 with 10.2 and 10.3 (it originally came with OS 9.1, but it had 10.2 by the time it was given to me)

Then as I mentioned before, I have my current PowerMac which is my first actual new computer, which had Tiger pre-installed.

Well, the first Mac I (actually, my family) ever owned went from System 6 to OS 7.6.

resedit wrote:

mikedemo wrote:

Here's all the Mac's i've owned.


Mac II

I still have one of those - it needs a video card though.

Cool. Maybe you can find on ebay. NuBus cards will prolly be imposible to find though.

Last edited by mikedemo (2005-05-31 10:01 am)

My Mac Plus began with System 1 and ended with System 6, I believe.  I don't think it could run System 7, but it's been so long that I don't recall.  That computer was in use from 1986 until 1992 or so. 

The next longest run would be my 9600 that started out with System 7 and ended with 9.1.

There have been many between and after those two (and one before), but those were the longest stretches of OS change.

Last edited by VegasACF (2005-05-31 1:34 pm)

Besides my 12-inch powerbook 1.33 ghz, I have a G4 cube that I still use.

It has gone from 9.1 to 10.4.

edit: Actually reads post. 

Sod systems, what about actual machines?

The happy years:

Sinclair ZX81, wobbly 16k rampack
Sinclair Spectrum 48k ram
Commodore Amiga 500+ 1mb ram

The sad years:

Crapway PC, 400mhz, 486mb ram

The happy years, again:

Powerbook 800, 1gb ram
PowerMac G5, dual 2.7, 4gb ram

Only 6, but quite the variety.  I like ram.

The ram some of these machines have now...

Last edited by misterboo (2005-06-02 10:02 am)