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John Wells, of iinfio3d, takes us on a virtual stroll down memory lane with a collection of screenshots ranging from System 1 up to and including Tiger.Holding the Command key (aka the Apple key) and pressing Tab will cycle through your open applications. It's easier to Cmd-Tab if you are Copy (Cmd-C) and Pasting (Cmd-V) to and from various applications.
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RyAndrew11 said 3:37PM on 8-28-2005
my first that i can remember was a Performa running 7.5
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Nick said 3:39PM on 8-28-2005
I started with 7.6.1 on a computer at school. I remember tinkering with every setting I could find on that computer since it was one of the few that didn't have that oppressive "FoolProof" lock on it. Extensions, Virtual RAM, and that little Bomb thing... Almost makes me miss that good old 200MHz CPU *sniff*
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Kurt Zenisek said 3:58PM on 8-28-2005
If you count school's computers I have done them all basically...
If you only go by what I own... I'm 1st computer at Tiger :-/
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Michael Tyznik said 4:02PM on 8-28-2005
I used to use my neighbors' Performa a long time ago (not sure what the OS), and my grandfather's original Macintosh, but my first Mac was a G4 iMac with Jaguar.
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Peter said 4:04PM on 8-28-2005
I began usig System 6 on an SE30. Forget Windows vs. Mac. In those days it was DOS vs. Mac. It seems unreal in many ways but DOS was preferable to many.
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Tim O. said 4:09PM on 8-28-2005
My first Mac was a Macintosh Plus, and I have no clue what OS it was running because I can't get it to boot (it's still sitting in our basement, along with a Mac Classic, a Macintosh II, and the list goes on). Mac Tracker says it first came with OS 1.1, but I think we upgraded at some point. Anyway, it's been around sense I was born in '89. I have an even older 'Apple IIc' that is collecting dust in the attic with it's original screen (green and black??) but that doesn't count because I bought it when I was little at a yard sale for fun ($5). The sad part is that I can't remember anything before OS 7...
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Brad said 4:13PM on 8-28-2005
My first Apple: Apple DOS
My first Mac: OS 6
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Chris P. said 4:16PM on 8-28-2005
My first experience with the Mac was on a Macintosh SE with dual floppy drives running System 6.0.8.
My first Mac I could call my own was Performa 630 CD. Whew, those were the days...
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Sham The Sam said 4:23PM on 8-28-2005
7.5.3 running on a Powerbook 5300cs was my first personally owned Mac OS / computer. It had a program that took up a relatively small amount of space on its hard drive which emulated my previous desktop computer (Commodore 64/128). Wondered at the time how long it would take to have an even smaller computer that could emulate everything that this laptop could do. Later, enter a 12" iBook running the world's most advanced operating system including Classic.
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Michael May said 4:27PM on 8-28-2005
A Mac LCII I think, I was only about 3 though, and it must have been running System 7. We've got a Mac Classic up in the attic, which is older than me hehe.
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Roger Wong said 4:38PM on 8-28-2005
My first Mac was a Mac 512K running probably System 2 or 3. The System, MacPaint, MacWrite, plus system utilities and all the deafult fonts fit on one single-sided 400K floppy.
What's interesting and amazing to me is that with all the changes the Mac OS has gone through, it still feels like a Mac.
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Michael said 4:48PM on 8-28-2005
i got into macs because of my skool. I wanted something other than windows but it had to run macromedia software, Mac was the only choice. The first OS I used was 9 I think but the first OS i got a hold of that I owned was panther.
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Mark said 5:27PM on 8-28-2005
System 4.2, Finder 5.0 sounds familiar. Something like that. It was a Mac Plus. Yes, I'm old.
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Shig said 5:38PM on 8-28-2005
Back in high school we had some of the very first Macs (it was that long ago, and my school was that good), so I cut my teeth on version 1. The first Mac I owned myself was a IIsi, running System 7.x.
But if we really want to go back, my very first computer was an APPLE ][, and that Basic prompt was as close as we got to an interface.
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Paul said 5:45PM on 8-28-2005
I must be old too, I used a Mac Plus with OS 1.1, although the first computer that I actually bought was a Bondi Blue iMac running OS 7.
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Dave Carlton said 5:51PM on 8-28-2005
Hmm, my first Mac was the orginal 128K back in 1984 (serial number 2008). Was working on a project and one of the guys had just bought one. I took one look and said 'I HAVE to have one of those!' Remember the marvel of MacPaint and the paintbrush that could paint patterns just like in the cartoons!
Simply wonderful.
I now work for Apple (and have for the past 10 years. Everytime you boot your Mac your using my code :)
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Rob Sayers said 6:00PM on 8-28-2005
First I used was System 7 at my middle school on a variety of compact macs ranging from pluses to se/30's.
First mac I owned was a plus running 6
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Ian Charles said 6:00PM on 8-28-2005
Mac OS X 10.0.3
Yeah i was a late starter
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random said 6:15PM on 8-28-2005
The OS on the first Apple that I've ever owned? Tiger. ;)
The OS on the first Apple I ever used? Well, it was an Apple IIe in 1990, so I'd say System 6 most likely.
The OS on the first Apple I ever got paid to troubleshoot? System 7. Evil OS when you're working for an ISP. Apple went through three different types of connection software on that OS: Classic Networking, Open Transport, and Remote Access.
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Ben Poole said 6:17PM on 8-28-2005
System 6 n a Mac Classic, my first Mac. This was soon upgraded to System 7, and the machine retired in 1998 to be replaced by a Bondi iMac running 8.5 -- that in turn was replaced last year with an iMac G4... :o0
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