VO restarts on my Mac once every few days, I'd say, but I kind of find
it amusing. The volume doesn't change, but Alex greets me with
"What's up, dude?", and I love the way he says it. It's as if he's
just checking in on me hahaha.
Eliza
On Apr 19, 2009, at 12:08 AM, Tiffany D wrote:
>
> 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
>>
>>>
>>
>
> >
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