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This takes me back. 6.0.8 was the last version of the Macintosh System and Finder that I really loved. System 6 did support color as well as larger screens, a
by mchannon 8y ago
This takes me back. 6.0.8 was the last version of the Macintosh System and Finder that I really loved.
System 6 did support color as well as larger screens, and I fondly remember phonebook sized white gloss books called Inside Macintosh. This _was_ Stack Overflow at the time. You had to crack a manual or know somebody if you got stuck.
Before even Xcode's progenitor Metrowerks CodeWarrior came along, Symantec Think C was my favorite coding environment. Microsoft Basic was a thing, as was Hypercard.
System 7 was ushered in with Inside Mac volume VI, a boat anchor of a paperback (never seen another this heavy) that threw everything akilter.
I look at the Macintosh SE on the shelf (no 30) and look forward to firing it up again. Hope its caps and hard drive haven't died. System 7 was basically unusable on the 68000's- too dog slow, and virtual memory was just a bad tradeoff. There's a kind of "snappy" about the old single threaded Mac that newer computers just can't pull off.