I remember System 7 and OutSpoken. Macintalk would quit for some unknown reason and I'd have to restart my Mac. I remember that I had to set the color to black & white before OutSpoken would work properly.
No, I have not noticed any increase in VoiceOver restarts. In fact, there have been fewer restarts under 10.5.6. Randy On Apr 18, 2009, at 11:42 PM, Scott Bresnahan 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
