On April 1, Apple celebrates its 30th birthday. Having created one of the first personal computers and the graphical mouse-and-menu interface most PCs now use, it is now reshaping the music industry with the iPod and iTunes. To celebrate the company’s birthday, Wired News has posted screenshots in an “Apple Operating System Gallery” which runs the gamut from Apple’s DOS 3.3 through Mac OS X 10.0.
Also included:
• SOS 1.3
• Lisa
• Mac System 1.0
• MouseText
• Apple II DeskTop
• MultiFinder
• GS_OS
• Hypercard
• System 7
• Mac OS 8.5
Full article with screenshots and descriptions here.
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It’s unbelievable that they got the UI right in 1984 and there’s not been a significant change in it since then (Great thinking then!). [Specifically, the top menu bar]
Oh yeah, compared to 10.4, 10.0 looks ugly!
Are they not just screenshots of Windows 95?
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All this attention Apple is getting for its 30th anniversary is sure to help with new Mac purchases this quarter.
Hmm….sadly, no mention of A/UX. OS X wasn’t Apple’s first crack at a Unix system.
*sigh*
Proxy Error
The proxy server received an invalid response from an upstream server.
The proxy server could not handle the request GET /apple_os/index.album.
Reason: Error reading from remote server
Whole lot of Proxy Errors
To this day I swear that 7.1 is still the most stable, hardest to crash OS ever.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1710639385606725770&q=mac+anniversary&pl=true
this is a very nice video of various apple footage, with Steve quoting Dylan.
Long live Steve man.
wired suck
MDN,
fix the link. it is not worky…
I couldn’t get this gallery on the Wired site to work. Anything I click on simply takes me back to the initial page talking about Dos 3. How do I see/read about the remaining os? Help!
Carlo:
Great video, gave me chills, esp. Steve quoting Dylan saying “For the looser now will be later to win!” Hope it comes true for us again. Keep the faith. : )
And left me a little teary eyed….those of us that have been with Apple since the Mac Plus days, just can’t help getting nostalgic.
April 1st–Invite a PC friend home and let ’em user your Mac for an hour! : )
Happy Anniversary, Apple. I have never bought a PC running Windows. The only PCs I have ever purchased have been Apple Macintoshes. And I have switched a few people in my day as well.
Viva la Apple. Oops. On second thought, scrap all that French stuff. Apple – You Rock!
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