Re: [Sort of OT] System 7

From	Alan B <alanrichardbarker@gmail.com.invalid>
Newsgroups	uk.comp.sys.mac
Subject	Re: [Sort of OT] System 7
Date	2026-05-14 20:04 +0000
Organization	Grumpy Old Men
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On 14 May 2026 at 20:18:28 GMT+1, "David Kennedy" <davidkennedygm@gmail.com>
wrote:

> On 14/05/2026 17:28, Old John wrote:
>> I see from MacWorld that today is the 35th anniversary of the release of
>> System 7. MacWorld says
>> "35 years ago, the Mac got an era-defining upgrade
>> System 7 is mostly forgotten today, but we're all still using many of its
>> innovations".
>> 
>> Maybe, but I remember it well. I had been using Macs since 1985, and System 7
>> was a massive leap forward. Back in those days I was a power user and (sort
>> of) understood what went on "under the hood". That all went with the demise of
>> the Classic OS.
>> 
>> Life was simpler in those days.
>> 
> Not when you had to constantly restart and re-install everything. I know that
> OS x was glacially slow on release but worth it for the stability.

I had to borrow dozens of floppies from a work colleague once when mine
crashed and wouldn't restart. Macs in those days did not usually come with any
recovery disks - fortunately my colleagie who owned a similar Mac model
running 7.5 had backed up his system to floppies.

-- 
Cheers, Alan

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[Sort of OT] System 7 Old John <watcombeman@yahoo.co.uk> - 2026-05-14 16:28 +0000
  Re: [Sort of OT] System 7 Alan B <alanrichardbarker@gmail.com.invalid> - 2026-05-14 17:07 +0000
  Re: [Sort of OT] System 7 TimH <thnews@poboxmolar.com.invalid> - 2026-05-14 18:09 +0000
    Re: [Sort of OT] System 7 richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) - 2026-05-14 19:17 +0000
  Re: [Sort of OT] System 7 David Kennedy <davidkennedygm@gmail.com> - 2026-05-14 20:18 +0100
    Re: [Sort of OT] System 7 Alan B <alanrichardbarker@gmail.com.invalid> - 2026-05-14 20:04 +0000
  Re: [Sort of OT] System 7 Ian McCall <ian@eruvia.org> - 2026-05-16 00:05 +0100
    Re: [Sort of OT] System 7 Andrew Hewitt <thewildrover@icloud.com> - 2026-05-16 06:20 +0100
      Re: [Sort of OT] System 7 Alan B <alanrichardbarker@gmail.com.invalid> - 2026-05-16 07:46 +0000
        Re: [Sort of OT] System 7 Andrew Hewitt <thewildrover@icloud.com> - 2026-05-16 11:44 +0100
          Re: [Sort of OT] System 7 Alan B <alanrichardbarker@gmail.com.invalid> - 2026-05-16 11:12 +0000

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