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What's the first Apple operating system you used on a regular basis?
1/1: What's the first Apple operating system you used on a regular basis?
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sort list by date
Can you re-sort the poll so show the options by date? This would be interesting...
sort list by date
It shows by date until you vote, then the results are by number of votes. Since there's not really any date field as such (just the dates I added to the text), it can't really be sorted.
sort list by date
If you go back to the main page (index.php) and refresh the page, it shows the percentages in order of what they were originally (in this case, date).
Been using since Apple ][
Yeah its been that long I had a Laser 128 and before that a Franklin 128 which was replaced soon after by that Laser 128 it died a horable death and needed to be returned back to Sears...
Lot of Apple II folks in there...
I'm surprised at the huge percentage of Apple ][ users... then again, I'm one of them, so maybe I shouldn't be surprised.
AppleSoft
Weren't the OS's for Apple I, ][, and /// called ApleSoft?
AppleSoft
> Weren't the OS's for Apple I, ][, and /// called Ap[p]leSoft?
My Pre-Apple background...
A TRS-80 Pocket Computer Model PC-2
My Pre-Apple background...
Woa!! I thought I was the only one to know about the Texas Instruments TI-99/4A! :) I wrote a little game in Basic when I was 12 on this thing. I remember backing up on audio tapes... That was a real pain... But still fun.
Well...
Well, I'm one of those that voted to make the Apple ][ the leading category so far. The question, though, "What's the first Apple operating system you used on a regular basis," of course doesn't reflect those of use that used other machines even before then. In my case, a Commodore PET -- yeah, I'm young and never touched a punched card in my life.
Ahh Nostalgia! Just dusted off some C64 games today for the new Power64!
Followed a very similar timeline as yourself, Commodore PET being my first computer, to the C64 then moved straight to the Mac Classic from that after using some friends Apple ]['s and Pluses quite a bit earlier. I admit being intrigued by the Mac earlier than when I switched but couldn't really afford to switch machines at that young of an age.
Recently I made a little graphic timeline of my computing history if you're interested. Still have my working Mac Classic! Anyone have any great ideas to revive it for, thought of installing ethernet and having an MP3 jukebox, or a mini recipe book for the kitchen, or a little electronic message board for everyone to leave notes on, or.......?
Well...
You wouldn't be my friend Jim from back in Orchard Park? :-) You sound just like him -- He was the Commodore guy and I was the Apple guy. Oh man, so many years ago now!
Well...
Heh heh. That's interesting, I was the exact opposite. I had an Apple ][+, and learned to program in AppleSoft Basic and assembly. I was *so* unimpressed with my friends who had VIC 20s or C-64s. Maybe it was the C-64's blasted huge, colored screen border that bugged me for some reason. Oh, and that absurdly large & loud disk drive. Steve Wozniak would be forever classified a genius, if all he ever did was design the small, fast Apple Disk ][!
ProDOS?
My first Apple was a IIc, but I don't think it ran an Apple OS, I believe it ran ProDOS, which is not an option
ProDOS?
ProDOS was the replacement for the original apple DOS 3.3 (or 3.2 for you 13 sector disk and Integer Basic fans). Beagle Brothers made a DOS replacement (ProntoDOS) as well, as some others.
What about A/UX?
This was the first Apple OS I used on a regular basis (at uni). It introduced be to both unix and System 6 at the same time.
What about A/UX?
Ahhh - god 'ole A/UX. I ported BrouHaHa Smalltalk to A/UX 1.1 at university, working as an RA.
10.3
No offense to anybody, but how can anyone choose 10.3 as the first regularly used Apple OS. In order to get the OS, you'd have to be a developer, right? And if so, you'd think you'd have been developing on the platform to shell out money for the hardware, etc.... which means you were using some other version of the OS *regularly*, right?
Iwaited until they had a real OS...
I always wanted Apple hardware, but I thought the OS was no better than Windows 3.1 with its cooperative multitasking. So I stayed with OS/2 and then Linux. When OS X came out I became very interested. I got an iBook with 10.1 on it. I'm now on my second iBook with 10.2 and next year I'll have my dual G5 with Panther.
Older Apple OSes
The older Apple choices are not OSes per se, but platforms. I mean there was ProDOS and DOS 3.3. There was probably stuff before DOS 3.3, but thats just where I came in. It never changed (until ProDOS) for the 3-4 years I was using Apples. Wait, I really never used an apple. I had a Franklin Ace 100 and a Laser 128. I would have probably bought a mac clone but I never got a round tuit. Ya know, there are no IIGS options on there...GSOS, I believe...
Older Apple OSes
Good call--I almost forgot about the IIGS. It had an OS more than you can really say the Apple I/II did (not that you couldn't boot into the command line on a //c, but you usually just booted directly into a piece of software), and in functional terms was a real competitor to early Macs (bettered them in many cases, in fact).
Older Apple OSes
3.2, with 13 sector disks and Integer basic.
Older Apple OSes
Truth be told, there *was* an Apple DOS 3.1, but it was very short-lived. 3.0 was never really released.
I'm old...
I built my first computer in the summer of 1985, an Apple //e with quite a few hot parts... literally.
System 4.0?
In a closet I recently came across some old floppy disks from my first Mac: an SE (the first to ship with the 20MB HD, instead of two floppy drives). The disk label claimed to be System 4.0 (400 KB 3.5" diskette), but I have long since lost track of any machine that could read that diskette to confirm.... Since I got the SE in 1987, I voted for System 2, which for all I know may have been the original installed system. It definitely was before System 6.
Gee, I just realized that there are probably more than a few posters here who weren't even alive in 1987....
positive trend
pretty interesting that there are almost as many users in the survey that began to use Mac OS after 10.0 beta (March 2001-present) as in the System 7.5-9.2 period (1995-2001). Though the survey may be biased (it is OS X hints after all).... I am encouraged there are so many new adopters.
System 8 release date
System 8 was released in July 1997, not 1998 as the poll choices represent.
My god, 20 years using Apple...
Hey Steve, next time we meet at the Apple Expo in Paris, you better shake my hand. I invested a lot of money in Apple! ;) ---
My god, 20 years using Apple...
$Cn00 can get you into a lot of trouble on an Apple ][...
My god, 20 years using Apple...
OK:
System 5?
Hey my first Mac OS was System 5.0 on my Mac Plus -- no poll option :(
Graphed it!
I used Keynote to creat a nice graph of the usage over time:
http://www.macosxhints.com/images/usage_b.jpg This is a 120kb 1024x768 JPEG image, updated this morning... -rob.
NextStep?
Since OS 10 is derived from NextStep and not Mac OS, why not have a NeXT poll?
NextStep?
Because we are talking about Mac OS from Apple. NeXT doesn't exist anymore.
NextStep?
> Because we are talking about Mac OS from Apple.
MacOS 8.1... on BasiliskII emulator :)
A bit of history...
I first used an HP plotter and an Apple
Back in 77 I learned CAD in the military service on an Apple with a HP plotter. I repaired Apple and a few other brands in the early eighties on superbowl sunday I stopped by Sears to pick up a LISA floppy drive from the parts department and saw the unvailing of the Macintosh. It was a full twenty years ahead of any thing else on the market. It was then that I became a MacMan.
Newton OS
Apple's Newton OS (August 1993- February 1998)
Newton OS ... I remember NewtonScript
Now THAT was a waste of a good scripting language.
System 5
C'mon, where's the System 5 option? My first Mac, a 1 MB Mac SE with two internal 800k floppy drives (and no hard disk) ran System 5 with "MultiFinder."
Repair and parts info for Apple II?
Geez this brings back memories. My brother and I have been trying to ressurrect my Apple II (serial number 974), which gave up the ghost around a decade ago. We've found some parts on eBay and such, but wonder if anyone can recommend good websites with advice on repairs the guys, spare parts, forums, whatever.
history of computers
Feels kinda weird listing my old computers. I switched and re-switched through the years. At one point, I remember being very much anti-Mac, but not necessarily pro-Windows. Anyway, here's the list:
Been around the block...
The first computer we owned was an Apple ][e, which we were introduced to in grade school. The school purchased 4 new Apple ][e's--at the time, that was quite an accomplishment. Our good friends owned an Apple IIc, which we used quite a bit for games. I've also used an IBM XT in high school, and from there I was pretty much caught up in the WinTel world. Am I the only one here that's had experience with an Amiga? That was a nice computer, but software was rather limited. I think it ran it's own OS (AmigaOS 8???). I switched over to Macs when OS X was first released and haven't looked back since. One thing I remember was getting a 300 baud(!!!) modem for the ][e and running up the phone bill to $300 calling a BBS in Schaumburg, IL!
Story of a switcher
I started a long time ago on CP/M. Later I owned a C64. After that one of the first IBM PCs and a Amiga. In school we worked on a Apple IIe.
Try System 4.2/Finder 5.5, baby
In December 1984 at the impressionable age of 12, after visiting the local computer store and seeing a very early Macintosh in action for the very first time (and being completely floored), I begged my parents to get one, and sure enough, my family got our first computer for christmas. It was a Mac 128k. ;) I was the last person on the block to get a computer, but boy was it a life-changing experience...
Comments of various OSes
Here is what I think is a complete list of computer systems that I've used. I would be interested in other users' comments on these opinions!
First Mac OS
Good ol' 7.6.1. It isn't on this poll! I had to choose other. |
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