Stuart Bell wrote: >Ah, but 8.x was current when I first started with Macs! ;-)
Ahhh, a NEW kid. >;) I started with 6.0.8 or something like that, and didn't know enough about Macs to do Special->Shutdown before hitting the power switch. (Hey, all I knew was Apple ][!) At least I had MultiFinder. I'm sure some here will call _me_ the new kid because they remember the single-tasking days. :) Those first Macs I used were Classics and SE/30's - my uni had one in every dorm room. Being a physics major, I'd want to strangle the tech who set up the theater major next door with the SE/30 when I got stuck with a Classic. How could I play MUDs all night if ZTerm was slowing down the recursively calculating Excel sheet I had in the background for my assignment the next day? Didn't they cross-reference rooms to student majors to figure out who needed some _real_ computing power? What was wrong with those people? Net lag was bad enough at 9600 baud, I didn't want my knight to see "COME WITH ME, MORTAL ONE" because Excel took too many cycles from the terminal app! And then there was the time my roommate and I helped a classmate upgrade his compact from system 4 something to the newest, 6.0.8. We found no less than 12 "System Folders" on his drive. We cleared out all the clutter and gave him a few goodies like Eyeballs and a screensaver. He went home, turned all the options on the screensaver to impress his wife with the new toy, and promptly locked the computer up when it couldn't handle animating all those things. Ahhhh the memories. :) Tim -- Tim Larson <>< <>< <>< <>< <>< Info. Services - Internal Medicine Clinical Systems, Mayo Clinic, Rochester Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. - C.S. Lewis -- Compact Macs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/>. Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Compact Macs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/compact.shtml> The FAQ: <http://macfaq.org/> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive:<http://www.mail-archive.com/compact.macs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
