I think Siri should be re-imagined as the Talking Moose.
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Here's What Your Favorite Mac Apps Would Have Looked Like in 1999
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I still have my Pismo… I need to get it out and use it for a bit
The one thing I miss most about pre-macOS was the ability to roll up the window into its title bar like a window shade. The function was actually called WindowShade, I think! I so badly wish I could have the functionality again. There are some apps that do it, but they are very hack-ish and don’t work as well as I’d like. I still don’t know why Apple removed it…
Never liked to use WindowShade. A-Dock was available for OS 9. It gave a Mac OS X Dock for easy multitasking.
The Platinum theme file and Appearance control panel from OS 8 could be used in OS 7.5.3 so you could get Platinum in that OS too.
Apps were designed with their function in mind back then. Now so many apps strip functionality to look "modern"
2001. I remember sitting in Computer Science at college, using a Windows computer, and anxious to get back to my Mac OS 9 computer at home. There is just something so satisfying about the clean, crisp UI that Windows has never had, and OS X and future updates just never quite achieved.
Ironically, the new haptic-feedback trackpads bring back some of that experience with its tapping and sheer responsiveness.
Ironically, the new haptic-feedback trackpads bring back some of that experience with its tapping and sheer responsiveness.
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All the Zip drives work on all my machines. I have a SCSI Zip for the 68K and Beige PowerPC Macs. I have a USB Zip drive for my USB Macs and an internal IDE Zip drive for my G4/PC
The ultimate Classic Mac OS version was 8.6. 8.5 was a heaping pile of garbage and the first version of the OS that was PPC only. By the time 8.6 was released things were tight fast and very very stable. OS 9 didn’t get to the same level of stability until one of the 9.1.x updates IMO.
Yep. Apps had to be specifically coded and handle their own multi-threading, even in early OS X until Grand Central Dispatch was created to do it automatically IIRC. I remember when a version of Final Cut Pro was released that was able to use both processors when rendering, was a big deal at the time.
Apple didn't remove it, they never implemented it.I still have my Pismo… I need to get it out and use it for a bit
The one thing I miss most about pre-macOS was the ability to roll up the window into its title bar like a window shade. The function was actually called WindowShade, I think! I so badly wish I could have the functionality again. There are some apps that do it, but they are very hack-ish and don’t work as well as I’d like. I still don’t know why Apple removed it…
I'm being pedantic here, but…
To my knowledge, WindowShade was never available for OpenStep/NeXTStep. Considering that Mac OS X 10.0 might as well be OpenStep 6.0, the feature would need to be ported for it to be considered removed.
I wouldn't say a lot. I worked for Time Warner Cable. It was only just rolling out cable modems in the Minneapolis area in 1998, which was the test market for the country.
Only 14% of the nation's 39.8 million Internet subscribers had broadband access at the end of 1999, according to Emarketer.
By 2000 only 52% of adults in the US were online.
Quickcam was far from the only option at the time. Had a Apple QuickTake camera back in 1994. 640×480 resolution, 32 photos at 320×240 resolution or a mixture of the two. It was awesome.
I don't get how modern macOS represents the real world on a screen
It should have ended with an Error Type 11 message. I never got an HD full message way back when. Error type 11? The bane of my existence in the 90s.
I just discovered it recently, and for the most part it seems to work on Monterey! The only major issue I’ve run into is that I can’t get it to recognize my network, but I haven’t spent much time troubleshooting
I elided two things unintentionally.
1) I really liked MacOS 9.
2) I was quite happy with the state of computing and the Internet circa the years of MacOS 9.
I remember OS9 well. In fact, my memories of vintage Mac OSes go back way earlier than that. To 1984. And I have just about zero nostalgia for any of them. My sense is that the folks who are most interested in 'reliving' the older OS experience are those who are too young to have experienced them in the first place.
Which is probably the case for most forms of era nostalgia. I also have no interest in bringing back 80s or 90s fashion. All of this explains why, as a youngster, I was far more into the 50s nostalgia that was rampant in the 70s (exemplified by American Graffiti, Happy Days, Grease, etc.) than were my parents, who actually lived through the 50s.
Which is probably the case for most forms of era nostalgia. I also have no interest in bringing back 80s or 90s fashion. All of this explains why, as a youngster, I was far more into the 50s nostalgia that was rampant in the 70s (exemplified by American Graffiti, Happy Days, Grease, etc.) than were my parents, who actually lived through the 50s.
I distinctly remember Chrome using the most RAM even when it was new. That's why I was using Safari back then, but when they broke extensions support and kept falling behind newer web standards, I switched to FF.
Why... TextEdit? The others I understand, but TextEdit? SimpleText already exists.
Almost true, but slightly off.
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When it comes to the next generation of Power Macs, are two processors really better than one?
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Same here. That's when I got DSL and could download fansubbed anime to help learn both English and Japanese.
Such an incredible era that will never come again I think. Anyone remember Hotline? Funny how everyone forgets what is basically Discord existed in 1999.
People can build all that classical and simple good stuff again and reject all the terrible platforms like Facebook and the toxic web3 hooligans.