On Apr 30, 2010, at 7:19 PM, Adam Maas wrote: > On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 7:09 PM, paul stenquist <pnstenqu...@comcast.net> > wrote: >> >> On Apr 30, 2010, at 6:58 PM, P. J. Alling wrote: >> >>> On 4/30/2010 6:27 PM, Bob W wrote: >>>> [...] >>>> >>>>> Here I can agree with you both. The CPU was not quite up to >>>>> speed for >>>>> a GUI system when Apple introduced the Macintosh in 1884. >>>>> >>>> That must have been the iSteam. >>>> >>> >>> I believe it was hand cranked and machined entirely out of brass... >>> >> Before there was GUI on the Mac, you could run Quark Catalyst -- a mac-like >> desktop -- an an apple //c or //e. Now that was slow. Apple //GS introduced >> GUI at about the same time as the Mac launch, but the // processor made it >> weird for some applications. >> Paul > > The //GS was actually a much more capable machine than the early Macs > were, but had some PC-like hoops you had to jump through for software > compatibility, a //GS really wasn't all that closely related to the > earlier // models and that resulted in some software oddities where > programmers had coded close to the hardware and expected certain > behaviours. > I had a hot-rod //GS with an accelerator that hopped it up to a full 3 megahertz. The standard machine was 1 megahertz. It had 8 megs of ram, and a 40 meg hard drive. I wrote numerous magazine articles with it, and my kids did a lot of artwork with Dazzle Draw. I even shot some digital still photos with it using color eyes and a vhs movie camera. It was a good machine. Unfortunately, my wife talked me into giving it to her sister many years ago. > -- > M. Adam Maas > http://www.mawz.ca > Explorations of the City Around Us. > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions.
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