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Flickr Find: Mac OS 10.0 UI
Reader and Flickr user ismh has posted a series of screenshots of Mac OS 10.0 to our Flickr pool. It was just seven years ago -- March of 2001 -- that Mac OS 10.0 was released to the waiting masses. I distinctly remember driving to my local authorized retailer to buy a copy, and then quickly rushing home to install it on my 333mhz G3 iMac.What I apparently fogot was how different the UI was. Remember the pinstripes? How about Sherlock? And don't miss the list of supported hardware, including the iBook, the PowerBook G3, The Power Macintosh G3 and the good 'ol Power Mac G4.
I also remember slower-than-molasses performance and aqua lozenge buttons everywhere. Oh, Mac OS X. How you've changed.
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4ster said 2:12PM on 9-04-2008
After owning the Apple ][c (my second computer, after the Franklin Ace 2000), I took a bit of a long layoff before coming back to the MacOS a year and a half ago. I will never, ever, ever, ever use anything else.
I just want to say that I love TUAW, and I just LOVE posts like this one. Please keep this stuff coming.
These pics remind my of grad school, when my roommate bought I Mac and I bought a Thinkpad running Windows 3.1, and something told me I may have made a mistake.
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4ster said 2:14PM on 9-04-2008
Apparently, my grad school taught neither typing or proofreading. Sorry.
ICEBrk said 3:09PM on 9-04-2008
There was a time period when Win 3.1 and iMacs had overlap? Wasn't the first iMac sold in mid 98?
Scott said 2:16PM on 9-04-2008
Um, spell check your post ....
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Jon said 2:28PM on 9-04-2008
fogot isn't a typo... he's just trying to connect with the youth of the mac universe by saying words in a "street" manner.
ex. Ooo gurl you fogot yo pill that night? Better be getting yoself to PP baby.
Simon Arch said 2:22PM on 9-04-2008
Oh lord, I remember the first few screenshots of DP3, when they introduced Aqua. It looked so COOL! Then my buddy, who is an Apple developer got his copy. We booted it up on one of the shiny new 266mhz iMacs at work. It was awful. There was no design to it, so it was UGLY. They seem to have hired some designers since then, so things have improved drastically. I just hope that 10.6 sees the last vestiges of the glassy, candy-coated crap excised from the OS.
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Bill Bradford said 2:41PM on 9-04-2008
I keep a "Blue & White" PowerMac G3 around - I've got OS9, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, and 10.4 installed on it for various troubleshooting purposes. The transition between 10.1 and 10.4 is rather interesting.
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Ryan Trevisol said 3:07PM on 9-04-2008
I just recently used a computer with 10.0 on it. I remember the pinstripes. I can't believe we ever thought that was cool.
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Gene Cowan said 3:27PM on 9-04-2008
Even better was the Beta, which had the Apple logo centered smack in the menubar. I have NO idea what they were thinking on that one -- even Apple's own apps have menus that stretch past the middle of the screen, what would have happened to the Apple then?
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Darren Scantlebury-Watson said 3:41PM on 9-04-2008
Let's home someone puts together galleries of the Mac OS X Public Beta and - my personal favorite - the original (Rhapsody UI) version of Mac OS X Server :-)
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Tom said 10:38AM on 9-05-2008
I'll have to take some screenshots of it next time I boot the beta. I've got every version of the client from the beta to 10.5 booting on my old G4 Cube. Ended up having to change the 10.5 minimum requirements to get it to load, but until 10.6 comes out, that hardware is capable of running every public release.
Rob Jones said 12:45PM on 9-05-2008
http://www.guidebookgallery.org/screenshots/rhapsodydr2
Mabedan said 5:18PM on 9-04-2008
i'm an apple fan, top to bottom...
but honestly, didn't windows XP look better than the two first versions of mac os x?
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south said 8:08PM on 9-05-2008
only if you think blue, green and red look fantastic together.
cpb said 6:04PM on 9-04-2008
what the hell was sherlock?
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xja85mac said 4:31AM on 9-05-2008
Never used Sherlock, I don't know why they still include it in OS X.
This is supposed to be a search tool, but the integrated Google search field in Safari is way better, it's in the place where you need it, why should you run another app to do it in the browser (where Sherlock will eventually bring you?).
PC Weenies cartoonist said 6:56PM on 9-04-2008
I jumped in at 10.1 and haven't looked back. Bring on Snow Leopard!
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Eric J said 7:04PM on 9-04-2008
Sherlock? I remember it being there. I have never in my life heard of someone actually using it.
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kjester said 7:44PM on 9-04-2008
what was sherlock??????
search for everything -- (in theory) -- find nothing (in actuality).
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Stephen said 11:48PM on 9-04-2008
The most interesting part of all of this is to see that how OS X FEELS hasn't changed much.
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