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From: derek@leah.albany.edu (Cinderella Man)
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Subject: Re: 7.0b4 - About the finder / About this Macintosh
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Date: 3 Apr 91 19:49:11 GMT
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From wilkins@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Mark Wilkins) come these immortal words:
>In article <3751@jethro.Corp.Sun.COM> Angus.Fox@UK.Sun.COM (Angus Fox) writes:
>>2) Option About the finder gives a screen I haven't seen before of 
>>information about Finder copyright etc,  I don't remember before
>>System 6 so could somebody tell me if it has been in the software before...

>  Gosh I feel old... :-)
>
>  The picture from "About the Finder" in 7.0b4 and probably later 7.0
>versions is exactly the same picture which one of the first released Finder
>versions used in the "About the Finder" box.  I think the version was Finder
>1.1g.
>  To have seen this version, you need to have used a 128K Macintosh about 7
>years ago.

	Did they really put that back?  Good for them!  I remember when it
first disappeared I was pretty disappointed with the plain box it was
replaced with.

	At least THIS Finder doesn't automatically create a new "Empty
Folder" every time you boot!  Tell me, is the new "About..." box in colour?

	August of '84... wow... seven years.

>-- Mark Wilkins

						Derek L.
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