hahahaha! what's up, dude? that's cute, lol. I need to change mine! right now it says the boring welcome to macintosh. voiceover is running. I need a cute greeting. lol. peace and positivity Jessi follow me on twitter www.twitter.com/canadian_diva On 19-Apr-09, at 12:17 PM, Eliza Cooper wrote:
> > 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 >>> >>>> >>> >> >>> > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
