Let’s take a look at what DAs were included with System 1. It wasn’t until System 7 that you could add Aliases to the Apple Menu. The System 1 Apple Menu only shows the currently installed Desk Accessories or DAs. In the System 7 Finder you have to hold down the Command key when you select About the Finder to see this mountain scene. Finder 1.1g was the only version of the Finder to show the mountain background of Silicon Valley when you chose the About the Finder command from the Apple Menu. Here’s an interesting little bit of trivia. This could sometimes result in file corruption, which prompted Apple to add the Shutdown command to System 2. When you were done with your computer, you just switched it off under System 1. The Shutdown command was not added until System 2. One of the most glaring omissions from the Special Menu is that it does not contain a shutdown command. The Edit Menu has remained unchanged through System 6, but the View Menu doesn’t include the Small Icons command. There is no keyboard shortcut next to “Open” in the File Menu, but pressing Command-O will open and launch a selected file. Under MFS you duplicate the folder “Empty Folder” and then name the new copy whatever you like. System 1 uses the Macintosh File System (MFS). Taking a look at the File Menu, you will notice that there is no New Folder command. Also, the edges of the tab are more rounded than they are in System 6. The edges of the folders are very square, and the tab is at the very edge of the folder. The folder icon in System 1 is different from System 6. I think Apple eliminated that because it takes a couple milliseconds longer for an application to open. The outline of the icon first moves to the center of the screen and then expands. When you open an application or folder, the spring loaded action is a little different. Also, there is no Application menu, because System 1 didn’t include multitasking. There is no Guide menu either, because there is no online help for System 1. The Menu Bar clock was not introduced until System 7.5. Of course, labels aren’t very helpful on a black and white monitor.Īlso, there is no clock. Looking at the Menu Bar you notice that there is no Label menu. Apple changed the color on the shutter of the floppy disk icon to white in System 2. The shutter on the disk is black, and the hole in the shutter is very rounded. Also, each time you turn off the Mac, all the files in the Trash are deleted. This feature wasn’t added until System 7. This appears to make the Trash look a little more natural.Īlso, if you put a file in the Trash, it won’t bulge. The first time that the lines in the Trash faced the right was in System 4. Seeing them pointing toward the left looks strange – probably because you are so used to seeing them facing the right. You may have never noticed that the lines on the Trash usually face the right. Starting with the desktop of System 1, one of the most glaring differences is the lines on the Trash. To learn how to set up Mini vMac, see Operating System Nostalgia. I created the screen shots for this article using Mini vMac. I’ll show you around the operating system and point out things that have changed throughout the years. Let’s see what exactly made System 1 so great. The desktop metaphor appealed to both novice and advanced computer users because it represented items that were used in an everyday office. From the Desktop users could access their files and move items to the Trash to be thrown away. The first place users began to interact with their Macs was on the Desktop. The Mac brought the Graphical User Interface (GUI) to the masses. The Macintosh operating system gave the Mac a competitive edge in the computer market.īefore the Mac, people used their computers by typing commands at a command prompt. The Macintosh was released to the public in 1984 and changed the way we interact with our computers.
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