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What word/phrase makes you think of old Macs?

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: ;)
 
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
 
Lugable

Hey I remember toting a SE/30 Mac on the bus in a big bag. They called it lugable.
 
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
 
Oh, and of course the venerable Global Village 56K Modem. Standard issue with most macs circa 1995.

And e-world to boot.
 
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.
 
.:*Robot Boy*:. said:
"Welcome To Macintosh"

Not sure which system that was under, but it appeared on startup while the Extensions loaded.
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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.
 
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
 
LimeiBook86 said:
... Print Shop Deluxe ...
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Whoa! Printing banners on the Apple IIgs!!
And although they aren't words who can forget the Happy Mac and Startup chime! :D
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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 said:
He's up in Macintosh heaven right now...:(
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He's still quite alive on my old machines ;)

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

Here's a few more:

> Power Macintosh
> HyperCard
> CyberDog
> Graphite
 
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
 
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.
 
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)
 
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.
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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
 
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!
 
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