What word/phrase makes you think of old Macs?

[5300cs]

I found this thread on a Japanese message board and thought it was pretty interesting. What word or phrase makes you think of classic Macs, or classic Mac OS?

Some examples: Daystar, Ram Doubler, Radius and eWorld.

For me, it would be Extention Manager or System Software.

(and no wise-ass answers like 'reboot', please.)

[Mitthrawnuruodo]

Bomb

;)

[mad jew]

Eep.

For some reason, the little warning eep sticks in my mind more than anything. :confused:

[5300cs]

Now that you mention sounds, the "eep" and "clink-clank" always make me think Mac.

Hmm, also "Dark Castle"

[mms]

Rebuilding the Desktop
System Folder (versus just "System" now)
Control Strip
Sherlock

[CanadaRAM]

Sosumi
Chicago
HDSC Setup
Localtalk
Fat Mac
Levco
Font/DA Mover
External terminator
ozone filter
Cricket Draw

[StarbucksSam]

Apple Menu Items
Floppy Disk
Smiley Mac
Performa
SUPER MUNCHER
7.1P6

[whocares]

Selector (or whatever it was called in English) [Edit:] I meant Chooser ;)
Extension Manager :eek: :eek:
Launcher

[Patmian212]

APPLETALK
PowerMacintosh(no pwermac)
SCSI

[Yvan256]

"Beige", of course! :D

[Sirus The Virus]

Mr. Potato Head Saves Veggie Valley
Claris Works
AOL.......28k

[xsedrinam]

Extension Manager and Conflict Catcher (it functioned more like a "conflict creator"), for me. :eek:
X

[notjustjay]

Chooser!

"Hello, computer!" ;)

[Lacero]

For me it would be Hypercard.

I remember using a Mac Plus SE and I was always intrigued by that program, mysterious as it was.

[wrldwzrd89]

Conflict Catcher. I used that thing all the time before my Mac OS X days.

Also, the username of the thread starter (5300cs).

[jazzmfk]

how 'bout

At Ease

Jasmine Technology's BackPac

MacWrite/Paint/Draw

Syquest drives

"eep"

StyleWriters (and their start up song of na, na, na, nana, na, nana, na, na)

$4K+ LaserWriters

Running phone wire for your AppleTalk network

[Belly-laughs]

Special>Empty Wastebasket

Apple Menu>Control Panel>~ATM™

Wild Eep

Floating Point Extension

When dropping a control panel or extension onto the System Folder you´d get a message saying "This item belongs in the Extensions Folder. Would you like me to put it there?" Clever.

[dsharits]

extensions (I know they're still in OS X, but we don't have to fiddle with them as much)

serial

NuBus :D

Drive Setup

68k

Floppy

ADB

Lisa

System 6, 7, etc.

DB-15

[dobbin]

MacWrite
MacDraw
MacPaint

[dobbin]

I always thought Performa was a strange name... :(

[Manzana]

it's not a word, but whenever i see the "all inclusive" multicolored apple logo!

http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:_AUNCuX5EEIJ:w3.trib.com/~dwood/macappletrimmed.jpg

[FoxyKaye]

* "Hello" on a computer screen.
* "Insanely Great"
* NuBus/Old World
* SCSI
* "Classic"

Just a few...

[dsharits]

it's not a word, but whenever i see the "all inclusive" multicolored apple logo!

http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:_AUNCuX5EEIJ:w3.trib.com/~dwood/macappletrimmed.jpg
Ahh, yes. The good old rainbow logo. Back in the days of such rulers as Spindler and Sculley. :rolleyes:

[rainman::|:|]

educational market... heh

oscar the grouch
chooser (where 98% of my frustration lived)
desktop printers
stylewriters (hahahaha)
enablers
there was a little icon of a guy (yes Fred), with a poker-style visor on, it must have been for some assistant... never saw the icon on the system, but it was on the cover of the 7.5 manual, so it sticks in my memory

hypercard
system 7 sounds (the file format)
RESEDIT!
simcity (the original)
barney blaster

but most of all, problems. still, it's cool nostalgia now...

[5300cs]

I'm such a black sheep; I loved At Ease (yeah, yeah, call me a dumb@$$) I also still use MacPaint sometimes.

I have Oscar the Grouch install on my PB100. Very cool :cool:

[puckhead193]

old -> LC
old -> B.C. Communications, where i bought the LC. it was the only apple reseller near me back in the day. In the store in front was the Apple section, and in the back was a gun shop.... with 2 huge, and i mean huge dogs :rolleyes:
new -> intel :eek: ;)

[kainjow]

DB15
ADB
NuBus
Performa!!
Secret About Box
John Sculley
Newton
SimpleText
ControlStrip
Ingamar (that his name? the guy who made all those sprite-based games for Mac)
John Calhoun (creator of Glypha - best game ever)
Pararena

[notjustjay]

The dogcow... Clarus!

Moof!

Bolo :D (anyone remember that game?)

[emac kinda guy]

Hey I remember toting a SE/30 Mac on the bus in a big bag. They called it lugable.

[mcarnes]

CD Player DA
Desktop Pattern
system 7.5.3 (my college days!), ready for the internet!
Afterdark Flying Toasters
Marathon
Durandral
Sculley
Apple Menu Items
Scrapbook

[mcarnes]

Oh, and of course the venerable Global Village 56K Modem. Standard issue with most macs circa 1995.

And e-world to boot.

[Balin64]

Extensions Manager

SCSI (although I am still running a SCSI film scanner in Tiger)

Shufflepuck Cafe

Aldus

[.:*Robot Boy*:.]

"Welcome To Macintosh"

Not sure which system that was under, but it appeared on startup while the Extensions loaded.

[Omen88]

There are so many

Dark Castle
The Fool's Errand (anyone played that game?)
Clarus the DogCow, moof!
Resedit
Nosy
Desk Accessories
MultiFinder (I hated it when system 7 didn't allow single finder anymore)
Bicycle for the mind.

[5300cs]

"Welcome To Macintosh"

Not sure which system that was under, but it appeared on startup while the Extensions loaded.

Come to think of it, just the word "Macintosh" makes me nostalgic. It seems that these days it's just called a "Mac".

I think the "Welcome to Macintosh" message was from Mac OS 7.1 up to 8.1? or 7.6.

[LimeiBook86]

When anyone mentions a computer I think of the Mac...but, there are some words when mentioned remind me of the good old days:

Unexpected error (Bomb)
Disk Tools (Disk First Aid, Drive Setup)
Extensions/Control Panels
Apple Menu Items/Chooser
Holding Shift @ Startup
Print Shop Deluxe, Easy Color Paint, & Reader Rabbit Math/Reading
ADB/SCSI/Serial...misc. old connections

And although they aren't words who can forget the Happy Mac and Startup chime! :D

[5300cs]

... Print Shop Deluxe ...
Whoa! Printing banners on the Apple IIgs!!
And although they aren't words who can forget the Happy Mac and Startup chime! :D
If the chime is taken out of the x86 Macs, I won't buy one. It was insulting enough when the happy Mac face was taken out! :mad: :mad:

[LimeiBook86]

It was insulting enough when the happy Mac face was taken out! :mad: :mad:

He's up in Macintosh heaven right now...:(

btw...awesome username ;)

[5300cs]

He's up in Macintosh heaven right now...:( He's still quite alive on my old machines ;)

btw...awesome username ;)
Glad you like it. It was the first machine I started collecting with.

Here's a few more:

> Power Macintosh
> HyperCard
> CyberDog
> Graphite

[jiv3turkey748]

the quack sound
and happy mac

[Johnny Rico]

Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy Adventure Game (http://www.douglasadams.com/creations/infocom.html)

[Mechcozmo]

Happy Mac
Sad Mac
9"
Floppy Disk
Mr. T (Codename for the Mac Plus, which I have :D)
ADB (Apple Desktop Bus)
External Hard Drive

[GimmeSlack12]

Spectrum Holobyte
Vette!
Hellcats: Over the Pacific
Casady & Greene
Maelstrom
CD-ROM 300i
America Online v2.7
MacWarez
Teleport Platinum
Motorola

A big sigh, for all the days I spent on my Mac LC.

[TDM21]

The words that make me remember the old Macs:

Chooser
Control Panel
System 7.5
Print Shop Deluxe
Claris Works
Extensions
ImageWriter (remember the old dot matrix printers?)
68k
bomb

Sounds:

Eep
The old old startup sound
The sound the floppy drive made when you ejected a disk. (always loved that about Macs)

[mac-er]

Our whimical litte guy, Happy Mac
Chooser
Stylewriter
Extensions Manager
Woz
1984

And, of course,

"To create a new standard it takes something that's not just a little bit different. It takes something that's really new and really captures people's imagination. And the Macintosh, of all the machines I've ever seen, is the only one that meets that standard.

[Flying Llama]

Hmm, we should do some sort of chart, showing the most used ones. Definately chooser and control panel...

Oh Docter Q... ;)

llama :D

[pubwvj]

128K.

[LimeiBook86]

I found this via Google Image search. RIP little guy! :o

http://www.aci.com.pl/mwichary/pics/about/portfolio/posters/obituaries/happymac.big.jpg

[5300cs]

You can get it as a back drop for Avi's backdrop for the Newton. Then you have the smiley Mac with on the go! :D

[pulsewidth947]

The Quack sound
EEP
Dark Castle
Déja Vu
KidPix :)

Incidentally, I found an old Classic II in a store cupboard at work. It brought back many happy memorys! My mum used to borrow them from work - carrying them home in a backpack on her bike :)

Plugged it in and it still works - and boots up quicker than my new(ish)PC!

[iMeowbot]

Wild Eep
That reminds me. This rules (http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/24858), it's all the silly old system beep sounds converted to play happily with OS X. The older monkey sound is in there too :)

[5300cs]

That reminds me. This rules (http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/24858), it's all the silly old system beep sounds converted to play happily with OS X. The older monkey sound is in there too :)

Awwww .. ROCK

clink-clank too!!

[jimsowden]

Grundle.

[840quadra]

Many trouble tickets we have at work start with LC, I often think of my little LC when I see them come in.

I have also setup rules and sounds for our ticket system that play various Apple Startup chimes, and Chimes of death, depending on the type of ticket, and the time it is due..

I now get to listen to my ipod and have apple sounds play when I am at work :)

[aquajet]

Clink-Clank! That's my fav, the first sound I ever heard come out of a Mac SE's speaker. As for words, probably:

Chooser
Font/DA Mover
Scrapbook
Multifinder
"Sorry, a system error occured." (glad those days are gone)

Also, who can forget the psychotic disk swapping... :mad:

[Marky_Mark]

RAM Doubler... of dubious value, I think, but seemed pretty much ubiquitous around the time of System 7.x, especially as RAM was several hundred pounds per MB at the time! :D

[Kashchei]

Remember the hollow, mechanical sound from the original 400K external disk drives? Unforgettable!

[nylock10]

Classic, PowerMacintosh, "Eep", "Quack", "Uh-oh", "beep" sound, the trumpets sound, KidPix, Super Munchers, Dark Forces, Damage Inc (and a few other games).

[synth3tik]

Conflict Catcher............:eek:

[chris200x9]

"old macs" :D:p:o

[4JNA]

'cheap' and 'affordable' are the two words that make me think of older Macs. much older actually...

Wild Eep Forever! (http://www.tnlc.com/eep/sfx/wildeep!.wav) :apple:

[brad.c]

Hello.

[gkarris]

Apple... :eek:

:apple:

[pknz]

Shufflepuck
Wild Eep
Oscar the Grouch
Conflict Catcher
RAM Doubler
Rebuilding the desktop
After Dark Flying Toasters
Grass (lawn mower man)
Launcher

[djbrickhouse]

some that actually would make me think back to the old days that aren't specificly attached to specific software...:

After dark
Maelstrom
Shuffle puck

I love those old days....

[OregonTrail]

Oregon Trail makes me think of old macs. Loved hunting those deer:)

[eric55lv]

Macintosh
Lisa
SE

[macEfan]

Color Classic
NuBus
SCSI
LaserWriter
Radius
Asante

[QuarterSwede]

Oregon Trail makes me think of old macs. Loved hunting those deer:)
That and Number Munchers. Good stuff.

[kygeographer]

At Ease
Happy Mac
HyperCard
Adobe Type On-Call
Adobe Type Manager
After Dark
SuperPaint!
Word 5.0
Disinfectant (anti-virus. This was the first one we used)
SAM (Symantec Antivirus for the Macintosh)
ImageWriter
Command-Period to abort printing
Font/DA Mover
MultiFinder
Norton Disk Doctor

I'm sure there's more I can think of. Great thread, it was a great trip down memory lane reading these responses!

[toolbox]

Prince of Persia
Prince of Persia Shadow and Flame
Sim City 2000
Eep
After Dark
At Ease

[thesdx]

AppleWorks
Chooser
Finder
Control Panel (Mainly makes me think of Windoze :mad:)
PC Exchange
Platinum
Desktop Pattern
Jigsaw Puzzle
MacLink Plus
AppleTalk
Copland
Sosumi
TeachText
Mac OS
Sherlock
.PICT
HyperCard
ImageWriter
Scrapbook
SimpleText
Chimes of Death
Stickies

[dpaanlka]

Mmmm Chooser.

[motulist]

adb
ram doubler
apple menu

[dpaanlka]

What a great idea (http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=404102) for a poll!

[Maldini]

Simhotel :cool:

[iMpathetic]

Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPod; U; CPU like Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/420.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.0 Mobile/3B48b Safari/419.3)

Megahertz :D

Well, makes me think of pre-2002 Macs, if you call that vintage.

[topgunn]

Closed Apple
Open Apple

[danidoll521]

Without question, "Eep"

[ghall]

Eep.

For some reason, the little warning eep sticks in my mind more than anything. :confused:

Nooo!! Now I can't get that out of my head. Thanks...

Though no specific word or phrase makes me think of old Macs, I still sometimes refer to System Preferences as the Control Panel.

[WildPalms]

Classic. and Clamshell.

[ClassicMac247]

Hypercard... Lisa... and Quadra, all remind me of the macs of the past.:D:apple:

[siurpeeman]

macintosh itself sounds classic. nobody ever says they use macintosh computers anymore.

[ghall]

macintosh itself sounds classic. nobody ever says they use macintosh computers anymore.

I do....sometimes.

[ebel3003]

Sherlock and the "Special" menu.

[coolant113]

The words that make me think of apple:
"Amazing"
Obviously "Think Different"
"innovation"
"Design"

[LizKat]

Notepad

McSink (McWherter's text editor, so fine, written in assembler, ran in 20k)

DAs (desk accessory programs)

Double Apple - some kind of DA manager shareware, I think. Some Dartmouth math students wrote it (IIRC) and suggested a contribution to their breakfast club... i hope I'm not making this up....

SCSI voodoo

CanOpener