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They'll only run older apps through the Classic compatibility layer in older versions of OS X. Others, like the aluminum G4 PowerBooks, are too new to boot OS 9. Certain well-regarded machines like the 'Pismo' G3 PowerBook have held their value so well that working, well-maintained machines can still sell for several hundred dollars.

You'd think it would be pretty easy to do this, given that I was digging for years-old hardware that has been completely abandoned by its manufacturer, but there were challenges. I was told to find something usable, but to spend no more than $100 doing it. My first task was to get my hands on hardware that would actually run OS 9, after an unsuccessful poll of the staff (even we throw stuff out, eventually). but I’m going to live with your favorite OS for a bit. So if there are any of you still out there, I think you're all crazy.

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While some people still find uses for DOS, I’m pretty sure that even the most ardent classic Mac OS users have given up the ghost by now-finding posts on the topic any later than 2011 or 2012 is rare. We’re now 12 years past Steve Jobs’ funeral for the OS at WWDC in 2002.

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So here I am on a battered PowerBook that will barely hold a charge, playing with classic Mac OS (version 9.2.2) and trying to appreciate the work of those who developed the software in the mid-to-late '90s (and to amuse my co-workers). People who work in tech: how long will it be before no one remembers that thing you made? Or before they can't experience it, even if they want to? You can't appreciate a classic computer or a classic piece of software in the way you could appreciate, say, a classic car, or a classic book.

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It's not possible today to pick up a phone running Android 1.0 and understand what using Android 1.0 was actually like-all that's left is a faint, fossilized impression of the experience.Īs someone who writes almost exclusively about technology at an exclusively digital publication, that's sort of sobering. So why accept the assignment? It goes back to a phenomenon we looked at a few months back as part of our extensive Android history article. Technology of all kinds-computers, game consoles, software-moves forward, but it rarely progresses with any regard for preservation. I only began using Macs seriously after the Intel transition, when the Mac stopped being a byword for Micro$oft-hating zealotry and started to be just, you know, a computer.

I have fuzzy, vaguely fond memories of running the Mac version of Oregon Trail, playing with After Dark screensavers, and using SimpleText to make the computer swear, but that was never a world I truly lived in. What's that adage-something about being flexible enough to bend when the wind blows, because being rigid means you'll just break? That's my approach to computing.įurther Reading Old school: I work in DOS for an entire day

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I roll with whatever new software companies push out, even if it requires small changes to my workflow. In the long run it's just easier to do that than it is to declare you won't ever upgrade again because someone changed something in a way you didn't like.

I'm not one for misplaced nostalgia I have fond memories of installing MS-DOS 6.2.2 on some old hand-me-down PC with a 20MB hard drive at the tender age of 11 or 12, but that doesn't mean I'm interested in trying to do it again. Using Mac OS 9 did not initially seem like such a 'great idea' to me, though. The above is a lightly edited conversation between Senior Reviews Editor Lee Hutchinson and Automotive Editor Jonathan Gitlin in the Ars staff IRC channel on July 22 of 2014. Jonathan: perhaps AndrewC should have to use OS 9 for a day or two )

We're resurfacing his experience from September 2014 for your holiday reading pleasure. But one thing our Andrew Cunningham remains unthankful about is that time we forced him to take an extended dive back into the world of OS 9. It's Thanksgiving, all Ars staff is off, and we're grateful for it (running a site remains tough work).

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