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[bryphotoguy]

It's OS 7.6. It came out in 1997. I was going through the manual and it said I will need to upgrade to a total of 8MB of RAM to get this working. The 4MB module will cost $70! Jeez..., that's more than 2GB of RAM for modern systems.

 

[ogacon]

Wow... glad I didn't buy a computer back then

BTW... I'm just curious, whatever happened to Graphite. Why was he banned? His rep looked good... did he just freak out one day? I'm always confused to as where/how these old long time respected members get banned when all I see is either posts like this, or them helping someone.

 

[MaDDoG]

It's OS 7.6. It came out in 1997. I was going through the manual and it said I will need to upgrade to a total of 8MB of RAM to get this working. The 4MB module will cost $70! Jeez..., that's more than 2GB of RAM for modern systems.

I was paying over $100 per meg of ram for my first PC........ And I think early Windoze (98?) came on about a dozen floppy disks......

 

[bryphotoguy]

I was paying over $100 per meg of ram for my first PC........ And I think early Windoze (98?) came on about a dozen floppy disks......

Yea but the RAM will cost more than the copy of 7.6 and the PowerBook 145 combined. I didn't think it would be that expensive. I doubt the demand for the module is very high.

 

[cwa107]

Ask and you shall receive.

I hate my camera btw. Sorry for the poor photos. And I'm mad. I was expecting a set of rainbow logo stickers. I want my rainbow logo stickers!!!

Hey, I checked out the site, but I don't see any pics for some reason. Maybe it's a Firefox thing.... I'll try Safari.

EDIT: Yup, it must be something weird with the Firefox beta I'm using. Up until now, it's rendered everything perfectly, so this is odd.

 

[cwa107]

I was paying over $100 per meg of ram for my first PC........ And I think early Windoze (98?) came on about a dozen floppy disks......

You're probably thinking of Windows 95. I remember installing that from floppy.

At one time everything came on floppy. Actually, I never even owned a computer that was equipped with a hard drive until about 1993 or so. There simply wasn't a need. That was back in the day when OSes were actually coded efficiently imagine that!

Now memory and hard drives are cheap, so we might as well waste our CPU cycles on running spaghetti code that needs a gig of RAM or more to run comfortably. But I digress...

 

[mac57]

Now memory and hard drives are cheap, so we might as well waste our CPU cycles on running spaghetti code that needs a gig of RAM or more to run comfortably. But I digress...

...and of course our "friends" in Redmond WA are absolute experts in this area! Vista is the proof of that pudding!

 

[bryphotoguy]

I don't know much or anything about coding but I don't think Leopard is much different Mac57. A lot of machines were kicked to the curb after the Leopard release. Minimum requirements are quite high in my opinion. Additional feature requirements can require a Mac made in the past two years, Intel Macs. G5's are just as capable.

Leopard is also a much larger install than Tiger. I thought I was able to install Tiger as small as 2.1GB. Leopard requires a 7GB install. Granted, there are 300 new features or however many but such an increase in install size seems like it could be bloated to me.

 

[cwa107]

...and of course our "friends" in Redmond WA are absolute experts in this area! Vista is the proof of that pudding!

Can't blame it on Microsoft. They've never coded their own OS from scratch. They wouldn't know how to code efficiently if a real programmer jumped up and bit them in the hind end.

Think about it though - did they write MS-DOS? Nope.
Did they write NT? Nope (IBM did back when it was still OS/2).

All of their OS property has merely been evolved by their engineers. The most innovative thing Microsoft ever did was in the field of marketing and getting IBM to ask "how high" when they said "jump!".

Of course we all know how that story ended. IBM, the once great and all-powerful corporation is a mere shadow of its former self. Do they even manufacture "Business Machines" anymore?

(OK, that was rhetorical, they still make servers.)

 

[cwa107]

I don't know much or anything about coding but I don't think Leopard is much different Mac57. A lot of machines were kicked to the curb after the Leopard release. Minimum requirements are quite high in my opinion. Additional feature requirements can require a Mac made in the past two years, Intel Macs. G5's are just as capable.

Leopard is also a much larger install than Tiger. I thought I was able to install Tiger as small as 2.1GB. Leopard requires a 7GB install. Granted, there are 300 new features or however many but such an increase in install size seems like it could be bloated to me.

Leopard, while being inherently superior by virtue of its UNIX underpinnings, is no different from the perspective that it is coded in a high-level language, much like MS's stuff is. The era of coding an OS kernel in Assembly is over, and us old-timers are just going to have to get over than that.

It's still hard for me to wrap my brain around the fact that I just bought 4GB of RAM for my laptop. 4GB! And it was only $90. Unreal.... I remember spending $400 for a 50MB hard drive.

 

[bryphotoguy]

That's right old man, get over it. Go put your dentures back in and go drive your Buick slower than the legally posted limit.

Sorry for teasing but you called youself an "old-timer." From your photo, I could guess you're not in your 70's.

 

[mathogre]

Good afternoon! It's nearly 5:30PM here and I'm about ready to leave. Tonight is D&D, which I had to miss two weeks ago. Should be a fun night. Then it's back to work tomorrow. Ah but that will be fine. I actually have some real problem solving work to do, so it will be fun!

Hope everyone is doing well. Later!!!!!!!

 

[cwa107]

That's right old man, get over it. Go put your dentures back in and go drive your Buick slower than the legally posted limit.

I drive an Accord, not a Camry (AKA Japanese Buick)

Sorry for teasing but you called youself an "old-timer." From your photo, I could guess you're not in your 70's.

I'm 30, but old enough to know what it was like to load a video game from a datassette (that's right, like a cassette tape)

 

[Derek McNelly]

Leopard is also a much larger install than Tiger. I thought I was able to install Tiger as small as 2.1GB. Leopard requires a 7GB install. Granted, there are 300 new features or however many but such an increase in install size seems like it could be bloated to me.

Yeah, the Leopard install seems bloated, but it's a good os.

Vista, well, Vista is bloated and, well, it's bloated.

Tiger is still a viable OS, at least for a little while longer, and I only upgraded to Leopard because I had become accustomed to a lot of the features it has.

I suppose if I have an 80GB hard drive, I might as well use it, eh?

 

[Tanner31593]

(makes An All Caps Post To Get Things Back Off Topic.
Ooga Booga.)

 

[Tanner31593]

What?!?!
Why!
Why Is It Not All Caps!?!?!!
I'm Typing This In All Caps Too, Since When Has This Been A Rule Or Something?!

 

[Tanner31593]

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH........MY EMOTIONAL LIFE IS OVER.
NOW IT'S BACK TO LOWERCASE WITH THE EMOTIONLESS, THE SOUL-LESS, MINDLESS, THE DULL, AND THE ROBOTS.




Did this happen because of me? lol.

 

[Tanner31593]

Okay, I love how that was in all caps.
When I say something, it's always in all caps, then people are like "*** THIS KID IS LOSING HIS MIND" (that was typed in all caps as well)


Way to mess with me M-F, way to mess with me indeed.

 

[PinkLemonade]

Tiger is indeed still very viable, probably the most stable OS out there right now.

 

[PowerBookG4]

yeah Tiger is awesome, but I can't wait for leopard to be the most stable after we get to 10.5.11ish I think leopard is my OS, its the os that has everything I need, I don't need anything else and I can't even think about what they will have in 10.6.