I've also noticed the crashing. "Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia." Charles Schultz, creator of the Peanuts comic strip.
El 18/04/2009, a las 21:08, Tiffany D escribió: > > I thought it was just me with the restarting. But yes, I'm seeing > this more as well and it's very annoying. The volume will go up and > VoiceOver will restart. Thanks for the info on the names. Btw, if > you type in Apple II Forever in youtube you'll find a really cool > video and then the one after it is kind of funny. It's a description > of the first Apples but at the time it was made, the II C was modern, > so you'll hear things like the mouse being new and the wave of the > future and how the idea of putting in an external disk drive was new. > There are other cool videos too. We should make a list for blind > retrocomputer users. > > I really really wanna see if I can get on the net with my II GS and > that program from APH. But I probably need a shell account (which > I've always wanted) to do that and an Apple-compatible modem. Wonder > if I can boot it up in the Macbook under VMware and find a way to > convince it I'm on the net through dialup? I just wanna see how it > reads pages. > > On 18/04/2009, Scott Bresnahan <b...@apple2.com> wrote: >> >> Greetings, >> >> I can't believe I am getting sucked into this. But System 7 was code >> named Big Bang. I know this because I referred to it as the big >> bust, since I thought 6.07 was much better and 7 broke many font and >> text drawing routines in Mac apps and the foundations for true type >> fonts were laid down. >> >> Then as I recall things went music based, I definitely recall >> Allegro, Harmony and Sonata in the 8.x roadmap. And Rhapsody, the OS >> that never came. >> >> Now, speaking of countless OS releases, I'm curious if people have >> seen an increase crash rate under 10.5.x as x has been getting >> higher. VoiceOver seems to be restarting several times a day now, >> and I "feel" this is getting worse--or rather this seems like a more >> frequent thing lately. >> >> Anyone else feel this way? >> >> --Scott >> >> . >> >> . >> At 4:40 PM -0700 4/18/09, Alex Jurgensen wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> They had no names as far as I remember. >>> >>> Mac OS 11.0 "Chocolate Lab" A.K.A. "Goldy" Maybe. >>> >>> Well, the computers at that time actually had nicknames, not the >>> OS's. >>> These Apple regarded as code names, moddel names if you will. >>> >>> OS X is as follows: >>> >>> Beta release (Unknown) >>> 10.0 Puma >>> 10.1 Cheetah >>> 10.2 Jaguar >>> 10.3 Panther >>> 10.4 Tiger >>> 10.5 Leopard >>> 10.6 Snow Leopard >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Alex, >>> >>> >>> >>> On 18-Apr-09, at 12:59 PM, Jessi Rathwell wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> haha wow! what was OS7 called? lol. I'm really curious about the >>>> rest >>>> of the OS's! like I know all OS10s are cat names, but what about >>>> before? lol. >>>> On 18-Apr-09, at 12:23 PM, Krister Ekstrom wrote: >>>> >>>>> >>>>> Hi. >>>>> My first computer experiences was on a Mac Classic, i think it was >>>>> called that ran os 7. I was one of the two, i think, in Sweden who >>>>> ran >>>>> Macs with Outspoken at that time. I absolutely loved that screen >>>>> reader. >>>>> /Krister >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> 18 apr 2009 kl. 20.23 skrev Mark Baxter: >>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> I went to college with an Apple 2C and an Echo Cricket which I >>>>>> did >>>>>> all >>>>>> my papers on. This was 1986-90, and the whole Dartmouth campus >>>>>> was >>>>>> wired for Macs. My roommate used to taunt me with the "talking >>>>>> moose," application on his Mac 640. I eventually had to trash >>>>>> the >>>>>> 2C >>>>>> when its disk drive crashed and I couldn't get parts for it. >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> Mark BurningHawk >>>>>> >>>>>> Skype and Twitter: BurningHawk1969 >>>>>> MSN: burninghawk1...@hotmail.com >>>>>> My home page: >>>>>> http://MarkBurningHawk.net/ >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>> >>> >>> >>> >> -- >> --Scott >> >>> >> > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
