Where is the happy new year message?

[hajime]

Hello... I owned PowerMac 8500 about ten years ago. It was under System 7 as far as I remember. On Jan 1 of each year, a sign saying happy new year showed up when I turned on the computer. How come it does not appear under Mac OS X?

[unity]

The only happy new year message I know of was with system 6.0.7. And then you had to have Kanji talk or something installed, or the Japanese system.

edit: ya, see here:

http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/7933/mac.html

[apfhex]

On Jan 1 of each year, a sign saying happy new year showed up when I turned on the computer.
Really! That's interesting. I've never seen that in all my years of using Macs.

I'm not surprised OS X doesn't have it, as I recall Apple tightened easter eggs and stuff like that down a bit from what there was in OS 9 and earlier.

[Merlish]

... as I recall Apple tightened easter eggs and stuff like that down a bit from what there was in OS 9 and earlier.

That's sad :/ Must've been cool times. :p

[JNB]

That's sad :/ Must've been cool times. :p


They were. We'd flood the BBS's (with our Hayes 300-baud modems) seeing who found the latest eggs. Pretty much every OS, every app had them.

[Merlish]

They were. We'd flood the BBS's (with our Hayes 300-baud modems) seeing who found the latest eggs. Pretty much every OS, every app had them.


>_< Stupid being-born-in-an-age-where-OS's-are-too-perfect-to-be-unprofessional-ness

[JNB]

>_< Stupid being-born-in-an-age-where-OS's-are-too-perfect-to-be-unprofessional-ness

Yeah, but you'll likely still be around when all the "Minority Report" toys are actually in use!

[Merlish]

Yeah, but you'll likely still be around when all the "Minority Report" toys are actually in use!

Good point ^_^