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| MacOS 8: where's the love? | |
Posted by: tmtomh on 2009-10-15 13:16:28My footman is loading the trebuchet as we speak.It's no match for my Verdana. | |
Posted by: Dog Cow on 2009-10-15 13:48:32Chicago is where it is at.My footman is loading the trebuchet as we speak.It's no match for my Verdana. "Oh look, they've got the Times on the cover!" | |
Posted by: protocol7 on 2009-10-15 14:26:50Ikea would beg to differ 😉It's no match for my Verdana.Chicago is where it is at. | |
| Posted by: Temetka on 2009-10-25 02:20:54 When I got into Mac's OS 7 was already out. Therefore I first started on it and did a ton of tech support for the local ISP as one of the few Mac techs they had. When OS 8 was launched my employer bought all the Mac guys a copy of it so we could run it at home and play around with it and also we dual booted our work machines with it and System 7. Throughout my formative years as a Mac guy I always thought that OS 8 was the best OS out there (Unless we're talkin' UNIX or NT, then it didn't come up in conversation). I though that Platinum UI was a thing of beauty, HFS+ was not only a requirement but even on smaller HD's made more efficient use of data chunks. I will always have a place in my heart for OS 8 because it is Insanely Great! 😎 | |
Posted by: Trash80toHP_Mini on 2009-10-25 06:41:37My footman is loading the trebuchet as we speak.:lol: Personally, I'd cheat and use a Ballista w/a flat platform tip, replacing the normal BIG@$$ arrow head. }🙂 [😀] ]'> 20 yards is well under the minimum effective range for a trebuchet any larger than about 18" tall. [😉] ]'> IDidn'tRC, just found a fully (but flattened inside a ziploc bag) boxed set of 8.5 in my OS drawer. I must've needed to fix a borked (AKA AOL afflicted) system on my 6360 at some point . . . [:I] ]'> | |
Posted by: Bunsen on 2009-10-25 23:51:42Mac'sMacs Macs Macs Macs!!!  :scrambled:  | |
Posted by: Trash80toHP_Mini on 2009-10-26 09:51:26:lol: Good one & well done, herr professor! 😉Mac'sMacs Got one for the "than vs. then" problem or is that another Anglic-Oz-NZ English/American (world standard [😛] ]'> ) English distinction? Reposted link to graphic due to Page Break induced discontinuity issues, NOT due to "quote function" misuse!!!! [😉] ]'> [😀] ]'> | |
| Posted by: Charlieman on 2009-10-26 14:24:17 What about MACs, Bunsen? | |
Posted by: Dog Cow on 2009-10-26 14:31:57What about MACs, Bunsen?Mouse Activated Computer ess.... . Nope. | |
| Posted by: Charlieman on 2009-10-26 14:38:22 Media Access Control as in ethernet MAC address. | |
| Posted by: Bunsen on 2009-10-26 22:29:44 This Mac's MAC ID's ..... = The ID of the MAC belonging to this Mac is .... This Mac's MAC's broken. = The MAC belonging to this Mac is broken. This Mac's MAC's RJ45 socket's loose. = The socket belonging to the MAC belonging to this Mac is loose. There are 35 Macs in this lab. All of these Macs have MACs installed, but none of the Macs' MACs are working. It may be an issue with this model MAC's Mac drivers, or the Mac's generic MAC drivers, installed by default in all of these Macs. These Macs' sysadmin is Tom Ferbelknapfkopfel; these Macs are all under his control. It's likely that these Macs're on their way out the door anyway; if that's the case this here Mac'll be going home with me. Contraction of "is": apostrophe Belonging, possession: apostrophe Plural: NO apostrophe Plural possession: apostrophe ~after~ plural "s" (because no-one writes or says "Macs's" or "Macse's"; that would be silly) Capiçe? | |
Posted by: Osgeld on 2009-10-27 07:32:05Capiçe?Yea, thanks language police for derailing this thread into an English class (I'm sure we care) | |
| Posted by: Bunsen on 2009-10-27 21:27:44 You're welcome. | |
Posted by: Bunsen on 2009-10-28 01:01:52 | |
| Posted by: Buickguy on 2009-10-29 02:38:08 As Dr. Zappa once said "The crux of the biscuit is the apostrophe" BTW, I use OS 8.1 quite regularly. I find it a very nice bridge between the old System 6 and System 7 Macs and the Jaguar and Tiger Macs on my network. | |
| Posted by: equill on 2009-10-31 07:33:34 On topic (which?): Bravo! beachycove. OS 8.6 is the making of a (NuBus) PB 1400. Its 64-MB RAM ceiling does not make use of OS 9.1 useful—not least because a 1400 has to be cozened into accepting the installation—but (especially with a Sonnet G3/400 under the hood) a 1400 with 8.6 is much more the Kaped Krusader than it is with a 603e. On the off-topic: There is, supposedly, some reason to believe that the use of 's to denote genitive/possessive in the essentially undeclned and analytical modern English language—as opposed to any of its declined forefathers—stems from first the spoken and then the written elision of 'hi' from 'his', as in 'Lord Willoughby his March' = 'Lord Willoughby's March'. True or not, it gives a useful mnemonic to the generations who have been betrayed by the society (and its ideologues) that has failed to teach English as a language to its most needful members: children. No-one in 's right mind would have planned a language that forms both plurals and possessives with an appended 's', so some system of distinguishing them 's needed. The next homily will be on elision. de | |
Posted by: Charlieman on 2009-10-31 12:21:53The next homily will be on elision.Vry shrt thn? | |
| Posted by: equill on 2009-11-01 05:12:12 N't qu'te. R'th'r c'nd'ns'd th'n sh'rt. I disavowel 'ny n'ti'n t' th' c'ntr'ry. de | |
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