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Sorry, did not mean to imply that Mac Plus is the only System 7-compatible monochrome Mac; only that it is the longest-supported and (as you said) oldest such.
by TMWNN 4y ago
Sorry, did not mean to imply that Mac Plus is the only System 7-compatible monochrome Mac; only that it is the longest-supported and (as you said) oldest such.
I do wonder how many Mac Plus owners would have upgraded to System 7 as opposed to staying with, say, System 6. I imagine there is a significant performance handicap.
- KerrAvon 4y agoIIRC it would have mainly been a question of RAM size rather than CPU cycles -- among other new features, the Finder was always running in the background in System 7, so you needed more memory.
- mattkevan 4y agoI used to use System 7 on a Mac Plus right up until about 2002. That alongside (and on top of) a huge, noisy 100mb Frog SCSI drive and a StyleWriter II printer made for a surprisingly useful machine. The Plus still works fine today, though the Frog died long ago.
- TMWNN 4y ago> I used to use System 7 on a Mac Plus right up until about 2002. Were you able to run contemporary versions of Netscape? (Well, before it crashed, killing itself and probably the system.)
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- wiredfool 4y agoProbably not. My recollection from my Se is that a lot of http software was limited by the lack of color QuickDraw.
- mattkevan 4y agoNo, that machine was never connected to the Internet. I did run IE and Netscape on a bondi blue iMac though. IE was the only software that could crash the machine so hard it needed a full system restore.
- duskwuff 4y agoWeird. My experience was always that Netscape was the unstable one; the Mac version of MSIE 5 was more reliable (and had much better support for CSS).