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jeffy.dee-lux

macrumors 6502a
Nov 19, 2003
721
0
montreal
hey ya! this is a sweet thread. Kinda off the 10.1 topic and more on the old school mac topic: which was the first OS to support a web browser or email or anything internet related?
 

Voidness

macrumors 6502a
Aug 2, 2005
847
65
Null
I guess the first Mac OS was System 6. On PCs, you could go online using DOS for checking e-mail and logging on to BBSs. You could also install early versions of Netscape on Windows 3.1
 

Benjamin

macrumors 6502a
Oct 27, 2003
959
1
Portland, OR
jeffy.dee-lux said:
hey ya! this is a sweet thread. Kinda off the 10.1 topic and more on the old school mac topic: which was the first OS to support a web browser or email or anything internet related?

Anything internet related? Then it would be...

Honeywell DDP 516
SDS-940
IBM 360/75
DEC PDP-10

on AARPNet
 

ahunter3

macrumors 6502
Oct 15, 2003
377
5
kwajo.com said:
i honestly loved the look of OS 8 and 9, I wish I could run them on my Dual G5, it'd probably fly off the handle :cool:

*Ahem*
 

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ahunter3

macrumors 6502
Oct 15, 2003
377
5
Plymouthbreezer said:
Did you do that with ShapeShifter, using the Platinum theme?? .

Actually did it with Duality 4, but ShapeShifter will use the same module.
 

Lacero

macrumors 604
Jan 20, 2005
6,637
3
We just need to get rid of Brushed Metal. :rolleyes:

It's foogly!



Here's to the Crazy Ones
 

Jschultz

macrumors 6502a
Mar 14, 2005
880
13
Chicago, IL
Lacero said:
We just need to get rid of Brushed Metal. :rolleyes:

It's foogly!


Here, Here! I'm staring at my 10.1 disc right now. Ah, the love of my pinstripes.

Are there any decent web browsers for 10.1?
 

ahunter3

macrumors 6502
Oct 15, 2003
377
5
Nermal said:
ATI Evil Kext Files? :cool:

A set of kexties native to MacOS X 10.3.x that don't play nicely with the TFT display on my WallStreet PowerBook. Panther (10.3) wasn't intended to support this machine at all, I XPostFacto'd Panther onto it and discovered purple panther syndrom, as did most other XPF / WallStreeters.

Every updater would obligingly drop new copies and I'd have to root them out and disable them, so I made a folder with aliases to the suckers. At the root because I log in as root to evict the evil little kexties.
 

Anonymous Freak

macrumors 603
Dec 12, 2002
5,604
1,388
Cascadia
Public Beta works just fine...

croshtique said:
OS X public beta expired early 2001 I believe so I doubt it will work anymore.

It works fine. You just have to set your clock to 2000. And disconnect the network connection on boot. (It auto-syncs the clock on boot, even if you have network time sync off, so if you have it plugged in to the network, it will sync the time, and complain that the beta has expired.)

I'm running it happily on an original iMac. (The Apple in the center of the menu bar is a little disconcerting...)

What *I* really want, though, is OS X Server 1.x (The Mach/BSD core OS that still had the OS-9 look to it. Before Aqua. Before it was OS X 10.x)

For that matter, I'd also like to get my hands on A/UX for my old Workgroup Server...

Nitpick time... Before 7.6, it was 'System x', not 'OS x' So it would be 'System 7.0', not 'OS 7.0'. (Although the 7.5.1 and above bootup screen said 'MacOS', it was still officially 'System'.) And before System 5, there was no overarching 'System' number, you referred to it by the individual version numbers of the System file and the Finder file. Only after Apple started calling System 4.2, Finder 6.0 by the combined term 'System 5.0', did people back-number the previous releases.
 

FadeToBlack

macrumors 68000
Apr 27, 2005
1,843
5
Accoville, WV
Very cool thread! I would also love to get my hands on some older versions of OS X (and older) and get another Mac old enough to run 'em again at some point. When I had my Lombard, I tried to get Public Beta, but ended up losing the auction on eBay.
 

RacerX

macrumors 65832
Aug 2, 2004
1,504
4
ehurtley said:
What *I* really want, though, is OS X Server 1.x (The Mach/BSD core OS that still had the OS-9 look to it. Before Aqua. Before it was OS X 10.x)

Yeah, I still have a ton of fun working on my Mac OS X Server 1.2 system. Having a couple monitors on it and a lot of apps helps too.

Here is a shot from when I was working on a web page on it not too long ago...

It has been a great system for me, but I've always loved Apple's Rhapsody based operating systems. :D
 

LimeiBook86

macrumors G3
May 4, 2002
8,002
51
Go Vegan
Rhapsody

I came across Rhapsody for Mac and x86 a long, long time ago online. Needless to say I eventually burned them to discs. I tried to boot it up on a Mac 7500 but got some kind of error. It said I couldn't install it because there was a later operating system already installed, but no OS was installed on the machine so I gave up.

Oh well...and the x86 version never worked, I couldn't even extract the file. I also have a 8.2 beta disk image from an old Mac I bought haha. I'd love to get my hands on Mac OS X Public Beta...I think I had a burned copy but, that froze my iMac on startup :p
 

Anonymous Freak

macrumors 603
Dec 12, 2002
5,604
1,388
Cascadia

Lord Blackadder

macrumors P6
May 7, 2004
15,678
5,511
Sod off
One thing I'd really like to have for entertainment value is an x86 Intel verison of Rhapsody/OS X Server so I could run it on a PC. There are a few copies floating around here and there but it is probably a PITA to get software for it.

For the record, I loved System 7.1. And I was reluctant to get rid of OS 9 on my old iMac. The Classic OS was good. Especially if you compare System 7 to it's Windows counterpart - 3.1 looks pretty ugly.
 
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