Test your knowledge about Apple's beige years! How much do you remember?
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| Your answers in review: Question 1. Correct answer: C. Your answer: The codename for System 7 was 'Big Bang', emphasizing how System 7 would be the biggest OS update ever since the inception. Question 2. Correct answer is C. Your answer was: The progress bar came with the introduction of the System 7.5 update. Question 3. Correct answer is A. Your answer was: The product manager was Steve "Seven-Oh" Goldberg. You can watch an appearance of him on the Computer Chronicles over on Cornica. Question 4. Correct answer is D. Your answer was: Typing rs in MacsBugs forces a soft reboot of the Mac. And yes, rb works as well. Question 5. Correct answer is C. Your answer was: Prior to System 7 everything you'd put into the trashcan was deleted once you switched the machine off - or it froze and required a hard reset. Good ol' days! Question 6. Correct answer is A. Your answer was: Some older System 7 Macs (e.g. SE/30, Mac IIcx etc.) can't access more than 8 MB of RAM without this system extension, which activates the 32-bit address mode. Question 7. Correct answer is B. Your answer was: Press and hold Option + Command to rebuild your Mac OS desktop. Apple suggested to do it on a regular basis and indeed it seems to solve certain issues like generic folder icons. Question 8. Correct answer is C. Your answer was: Eric's Ultimate Solitaire was on disc. Obviously someone at Apple figured they needed to bundle a solitaire game with their OS too. Not that it is a bad game. Question 9. Correct answer is D. Your answer was: Files can have names containing up to 31 characters. That may not seem much today, but back then the DOS folks had only 8 (eight!) characters. Which would give birth to wonderful creations such as WMSysPr9.prx or twain_32.dll. Still baffling people put up with this, huh? Question 10. Correct answer is B. Your answer was: The IIvi desaster of phasing out a new Mac roughly four months after its exception didn't score Apple any points with its customers. Second comes the System 7 Mac that sounds like a Detroit 90's middle-class limousine (Centris 660AV - available between late July 1993 and September 1994). Question 11. Correct answer is B. Your answer was: Tricky one, huh? PowerTalk as part of Apple's Open Collaboration Environment (AOCE) came a bit later. It was not part of the System 7.0 release. Question 12. Correct answer is B. Your answer was: Cooperative multitasking is what Apple called it. While your FTP client uploads files in the background you could continue working. Albeit at very slow speeds. And only if developers leave some CPU cycles for other applications running at the same time. Better than nothing, but a far cry from real multitasking. |
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