On Thursday, August 1, 2002, at 04:13 , Larson, Timothy E. wrote: > 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. :)
My favorite memories of old Macs center around the viruses actually. :) I got such a kick out of that. For some of my programming classes, we used THINK Pascal, saving our programs on floppies. The greatest part was sticking my floppy into an infected SE or SE/30 (I don't remember which they were, but I do remember the *distinctive* hard drive sound) and ending up with a virus on every file on the floppy. Those were the good old days of nondestructive viruses -- when viruses were EVERYWHERE. We couldn't keep our lab machines clean even for a day. BTW, *I*'m the new kid... other than using Macs for a few classes during college, I didn't join the Macintosh crowd until 10.1! :) Eagle -- 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
