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From: russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Tell me:  what was System 1.0 like?
Message-ID: <1991May10.143658.29317@eng.umd.edu>
Date: 10 May 91 14:36:58 GMT
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In article <1991May10.043600.246@beaver.cs.washington.edu> chou@steelhead.cs.washington.edu (Pai Hsiang Chou) writes:
>In article <13941@ur-cc.UUCP> hlsw_ltd@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Dave Hollinsworth) writes:
>>Well, with 7-Day rapidly approaching, let's get nostalgic, shall we?
>>
>>I've only had a Mac for 2 years, so I'll leave it to the old-timers to
>>answer the question:  What was the original Mac system (1.0) like?
>>(note:  if 1.0 wasn't stable, then what was the first stable system after
>>1.0 like?)
>
>One thing that I miss is that the old Finder shows you
>the size of the folders on top of the window; but since they
>went HFS, you have to do a Get Info command.

In 7, it's back, along with one of everyone's favorite features of Finder 1.1g
--- that neat mountain picture in the About box.

>The original zoom (when you open a document) looked different.
>It would zoom from the icon into the center of the screen,
>and then zoom out to the entire screen.  They changed it so
>it just zooms out. 

Yeah, I liked the old way better, though it was slower.

>There was a Font Mover program, but not a DA mover.
>New York (instead of Geneva) was the default application font.
>The available fonts were Chicago 12, New York 9/12/14/18/24,
>Geneva 9/12/14/18/24, Monaco 9/12, London 18, Venice 14, and Toranto.

Don't forget San Francisco and Cairo.  (or did they come along slightly later?)

>It was very hard to move DA's.  No official tool was available.

ResEdit was available way back when, but it was sure a pain.  And buggy
as OS/2.

>The DAs were notepad, scrapbook, calculator, puzzle,
>alarm clock, keycaps, and control panel.
>There were no cdevs though, which came rather late in the game.
>ImageWriter was the only printer driver.

For us Lisa users, there was also the 'Parallel Printer driver', and there was
a modified Imagewriter driver called 'Imagewriter 15'

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Matthew T. Russotto	russotto@eng.umd.edu	russotto@wam.umd.edu
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