I miss OS 9
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- modern0
Technically OS9 was pretty dated by its end, however UI wise is had some pretty awesome things going on, the whole spatial file browsing worked really well for visual types.
- invisiblechamber0
next to my main machine i have a g4 with os9 wich is sporadically active. i kept working with os9 very long beyond the first release of osx and also miss it. although i got used to osx it still feels like regress. it's true that it kept one busy maintaining it, but for my part it was not too bad because i got payed for that as i was sort of system admin in the middle 90s. my very first mac-driven computer: umax clone, 13 years old, still running today under mac os 7.6, still firing up photoshop faster than any other ever!
- Spookytim0
I have a G3 in my loft that still has OS9 on and crucially the really great version of Illustrator (8? 7? can't recall) that had the really very excellent Kai's Vector effects which did perfect, easy to control 3d and extrusion in a way that no version of Illustrator has ever been able to match.
I think I might bring that thing back in and use it for 3d vector. I fuckn HATE trying to handle 3d in Illy CS.
- oh I used to love those KPT ps plugins, and when vector effects came out i peed myselfacescence
- ooh, and bryce and poseracescence
- I still use Poser to create basic forms to trace off and build people artworks on.Spookytim
- i still use bryce to make transparent jelly blobs for illustrations.invisiblechamber
- Kai's Vector effects where great, you could produce some crazy shit with it. :)********
- goo!invisiblechamber
- what about Alienware? Alienskin?I can't remember if that was the name..SoulFly
- invisiblechamber0
on my g5 i have classic installed to continue using:
freehand 5.5
resedit 2.1.3
signpost 1.12
ines+snes9x
bryce
photoshop 1.0- I have never launced classic. I had this strange idea nothing good could come of it.Spookytim
- most of the good comes out of it, really, it's quite classic.invisiblechamber
- rson0
damn you guys are old
- I'm only 38, but I hit the workplace at 15 as a YTS trainee / school failure.Spookytim
- Hey spook just joking im 33 not that young :(rson
- workplace mit 15 is good! now being 35 i hit with 18 and felt it was very late because school was such a waste of time.invisiblechamber
- ********0
I had one of these bad boy in the mid 90, coast me just under a grand. monster machine at the time.
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- ********0
Specifications
Processor: Motorola 68040
Processor Speed: 33 MHz
Cache: 8 KB L1
System Bus: 33 MHz
Hard Drive: 230 MB - 1.0 GB
Media: 2x CD-ROM, 1.44 MB floppy
Weight and Dimensions (US): 24 lbs., 14” H x 7.7” W x 15.75” D
Weight and Dimensions (Metric): 10.9 kg, 35.6 cm H x 19.6 cm W x 40 cm D
Original Mac OS: System 7.1 (System Enabler 040 v1.0)
Maximum Mac OS: Mac OS 8.1
Firmware: Macintosh ROM
Model Number: --
Logicboard RAM: 8 MB
Maximum RAM: 136 MB
Type of RAM Slots: 4 - 72 pin SIMMs
Minimum RAM Speed: 60 ns
Interleaving Support: Yes
Graphics Card: None
Graphics Memory: 512 k - 2 MB (two sockets)
Built-in Display: None
Display Connection: DB-15
Expansion Slots: 3 Nubus, 1 PDS
Hard Drive Bus: SCSI
Backup Battery: 3.6 V Lithium
Max Watts: 200 W
Ethernet: AAUI-15
Modem: None
ADB: 2
Serial: 2
SCSI: 1 - DB-25
USB: None
FireWire: None
Audio In: mono 8 bit
Audio Out: stereo 16 bit- Wow seeing that spec list brings back memories. Remember the benchmark tests to compare speeds?Spookytim
- I cannot remember that for some reason.********
- Graphics Memory: 512 k - 2 MB (two sockets) WTF********
- processor 33mhz...thing is the user experience wasn't that different (well apart from a bit more waiting)ribit
- invisiblechamber0
- his arm moved, right?ribit
- Yeah, a two-step animation.Spookytim
- don't forget to rebuild the desktop!SoulFly
- And to put the b+w pinwheel in the middle of the disk while it spins (or in the magnifying glass)locustsloth
- haha - damn - yes! put it there - or on the docs head. lol.invisiblechamber
- ********0
Norton, that did save my life a couple of times, if I remember rightly.
There was that one time when I pissed off this Hacker on Hotline, remember Hotline, he threatened to hack the living shit out of me. Anyway, 1 month past, and he did just that, my computer crashed and I lost all my work, he also trash the operating system so I could not recover my work, when I did get my mac running again I find out my web site has also been hacked, and every single gif, jpg was corrupt, bastard. Norton could not help me that time.
- Yolo0
G3, 128mb ram, Illustrator 8, kai's power tools. stable and fast.
Only just getting back to the Illustrator performance on cs3 now. and the 3d tool in illustrator these days, awful.
- ********0
Yes it crashed...but it flew. EVerything was in the right place.
- monkeyshine0
Luddite
