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3-24-2008 @ 9:34PM
Rick said...
"Mac OS X was launched on March 21, 2007"
I think you meant "March 21, 2001", as you correctly stated in the list below.
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3-24-2008 @ 9:40PM
Cory Bohon said...
Thanks for mentioning this, Rick. I corrected the post to show "2001" instead of "2007."
3-24-2008 @ 9:36PM
Mel said...
I had the Public Beta on a blueberry ibook :-). Ahhh the days. I love OS X.
I can't believe the specs:
iBook G3 (July 21, 1999) – First iBook (Tangerine, Blueberry)
12.1-inch Active-matrix TFT Display (800x600 max resolution)
PowerPC G3 300 MHz
66 MHz bus
32 MB RAM (soldered to the logic board)
Expandable to 1 GB (1 GiB) (288 MB specified by Apple)
3.2 GB (3 billion byte) Hard Disk (ATA-33 Controller)
CD-ROM
USB, Ethernet
Airport (802.11b, optional)
Mac OS 8.6
Mel
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3-25-2008 @ 8:51AM
Jeremy said...
Do you still have one of those ibooks? I still have mine (but in Tangerine). But I only upgraded it as far as 9.2.2.
3-25-2008 @ 9:09AM
AdamY said...
Public Beta on iMac DV SE.
Ah, Public Beta.... That was a looooooong time ago. I was rocking a dual boot system with 9.1 and PB my freshman year of college. Sniff.
3-25-2008 @ 9:10AM
Mel said...
No, if I remember correctly, I traded it in at a website and they gave me the dual usb ibook for $600.
It was real slow with OS X so it needed to be upgraded badly.
Mel
3-25-2008 @ 4:11PM
phlavor said...
I had just started my first real Mac Tech job when I installed the beta on an unused desktop G3 266. I thought it was so cool but pretty useless at the time. I checked it all out then I couldn't reimage the drive. I tried for days. I thought I was fired for sure. Then my boss saw it and said, "You're already learning OSX? Good job!"
3-24-2008 @ 9:49PM
Twist said...
I have a friend who was in the student developer program at the time who let me "borrow" his Mac OS X Developer Preview 4. It was interesting and quite different from the Public Beta and 10.0 versions. I think I had it installed for all of two or three days.
In an ironic twist my friend now works for Apple as a programmer (he has been working on the Apple TV software recently), but he never hooks me up with cool stuff anymore.
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3-24-2008 @ 9:51PM
FD said...
I was an early switcher with Puma :)
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3-24-2008 @ 10:11PM
Kyle Hance said...
My first was Panther on my PowerMac G4 (which is what I still use- lack of mula...). I use Tiger now, mostly because my system won't run Leopard :(......
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3-24-2008 @ 10:18PM
Joshua Ochs said...
Heh - I was in the developer programs all those years, so you could say my first version was OpenStep 4.2 (although Rhapsody DR1 was the first I could run outside of emulation).
I didn't fully switch to OS X until 10.1. Version 10.0 was a perfect example of shipped beta software. No CD/DVD support, no prebinding, etc. Slow as molasses.
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3-24-2008 @ 10:19PM
Curtis said...
Didn't Mac OS X 10.0 first launch on March 24, 2001?
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3-24-2008 @ 10:21PM
Carroll Wills said...
Cheetah on the first day. Actually, it was the day before the first day. Word was buzzing around the web that several Staples locations -- unaccustomed to selling Mac software and apparently not in on the embargo -- had just plopped OS X on the shelves early. I went in, and there it was!
Running on an iMac DVSE with 128K, it was slooow. But you could see the potential, and Puma was, at the time, an amazing upgrade (provided free to all us early adopters, if you'll recall).
Since then, it just keeps getting better.
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3-24-2008 @ 10:24PM
Kostas said...
I started with Jaguar (10.2.3!!!) running on a 700MHz eMac :) and it was pretty cool!
Although, I used it mostly for fun stuff (music, videos, internet, games). If there was work to be done, I would boot with the good ol' OS 9 and get things done!
I think the only thing I couldn't stand on OS 9 at the time, was the internet experience with the old IE...
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3-24-2008 @ 10:39PM
skyman375 said...
The public beta...I remember that! I was using it on either a Wallstreet or the first titanium PowerBook. It's come a long way - nice to see the evolution of a quality software system.
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3-24-2008 @ 10:49PM
Cycomachead said...
Well I first used OS 7.5 on my first Mac, but it was so slow I ended up with Windows. Then 2 years later I was given an iBook Graphite 466 320MB RAM with a DVD drive. It had 10.3.3 and I've seen it through every Panther update. Then later on at school the upgraded the computers to 10.2 (don't know why they didn't go with 10.3 - they could have handled it. I didn't use Tiger till O6 when I got my own MacBook and I bought Leopard on the first day. Yeah good times. Can't wait for Cougar or Lynx!
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3-25-2008 @ 3:07PM
conigs said...
Wait. Correct me if I'm wrong, but this is the general timeline?
Sometime before 2002 - Mac with System 7.5
Early 2002 - Windows
Early 2004 or later - iBook with 10.3.3
What were you doing with a System 7.5 machine in 2002? I could see system 8 maybe, but 7.5?
Sidenote: If you put Sherlock from System 9 on a System 8 machine, it would tell you that you needed System 8.5 to run it. This led me and others to believe that System 9 was originally supposed to be 8.5, but the bumped the full version number for OS X to make sense.
3-24-2008 @ 10:54PM
Bassir said...
Christ, all of those are 0.x updates.
'The hell will OS X 11 will look like?
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3-24-2008 @ 11:51PM
Macroy said...
My guess is it will look like "OS XI".
3-24-2008 @ 11:06PM
Lumpy Dog said...
Beta all the way, baby!
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