History of the Classic Macintosh OS
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Today we’re going to explore the history of the classic Macintosh operating system. MacOS is the modern operating system that powers every Macintosh computer, from the Mac mini to the iMac Pro. But the Classic Macintosh operating systems, Mac OS 9 and lower, is what we’ll be focusing on in this video.
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So, we're not going to mention how amazing it is that software pirates LITERALLY REFUSED to share Mac OS 8 because of how much people loved Apple? Damn.
Snayeshwird Holy cow! Source?
Darren Ung it’s literally mentioned in the video
So many people wanted to financially save Apple in 1997, so the number of upgrade sales of MacOS 8 was monumental. It wasn't anything like Windows 95's uptake rate, but still impressive for the number of Macintosh computer owners back then.
It was mostly bcs Microsoft was gaining a lot of hate for their increasing monopoly, and they would have gained full monopoly of the entire IT market if Apple lost. Apple was their final competitor at the time.
You forgot to include one key feature of the Classic Mac OS - The Bomb.
But what about Sad Mac?
TRUE STORY: One housewife was new to computers and when the "bomb" graphic and warning appeared onscreen she immediately had her whole family evacuate the house!
@@SWLinPHX XD
Oh yes, “sorry, a system error occurred” which required a reboot. I had a Classic Macintosh at the time and I criticized Mac OS for the required reboot since Windows only closed the offending app vs bringing the entire OS down. The classic Mac forums didn’t take too kindly to this criticism even if valid.
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I remember my brother got a Classic Macintosh OS computer working and it featured a few old preinstalled games. It was fun to use. At school in my classrooms, not the main computer classroom, there was a Classic Macintosh Computer. It was fun to use. I'm a millennial born in the 90s, but I have an appreciation for older technology.
Your stupid
@@hamzamohamed2010 got some nerve commenting on a year old post and showing off negativity:
I thought the first computer with a gui was made by xerox in 1973
Apple Lisa came out before the Macintosh too.
Yep, the Xerox Alto. A consumer model, the Xerox Star, also released in 1981.
Matt Lee Steve Jobs, saw the Xerox Alto and let Xerox having stocks from Apple. Then he got a eureka moment and made Macintosh.
SAGE System by IBM: The FIRST computer GUI, released in 1958. Uses a light gun for pointing. Was used for air defense and traffic control.
Daniel Garcia-Rivera Yes, but SAGE used nonstandard peripherals and was a mainframe system, not a personal computer.
The Alto and the Star were the first in that regard, as they were available for consumer purchase and desktop-class rather than room-scale.
I remember OS 8.0 launch very well and there was a push in the warez Usenet newsgroups to buy it. I was always hoping for the Copeland "Hi-Tech" and "Gizmo" themes to be released around 8.5 but they never came. I wasted a lot of my time going GUI hacks with Kaleidoscope and ResEdit.
When Steve Jobs came back to Apple, the Mac was at System 7.5.5. A frustratingly buggy version made worse with all the third-party extensions required by many programs. (Microsoft was particularly guilty of this with Word and other Office programs)
Under Steve Jobs, Apple quickly came out with 7.6 which brought stability back but was not widely adopted as it was the first System software in a while to charge (a modest) fee.
OS 8 was a major update and a big deal with MacWorld (I'm going by memory here) saying that it was so good and solid that Apple will have trouble in the future getting people to upgrade from this.
There was a neat shareware utility for Mac OS 8 called Kaleidoscope, which would replace the Platinum theme and colors with any of a number of custom themes, and there was eventually even an editor that would allow the creation of custom themes.
I installed it on the computers in my 3rd grade classroom, I'm sure the teachers appreciated that.
Oops, Xerox Corp. Under their PARC Building where the first Graphical User Interface for computers was first idealized and finished. It was the Xerox Alto. Sad that Xerox corporates did not understood what the innovation of GUI is worth. 2000 units of Alto are produced.
That brought back memories. Good job.
holy shit the slim bezels on that powerbook
Nice video. The classic Mac OS always brings me nostalgia. I still have a machine running Mac OS 9 setup to run old software.
The best UA-cam Video I ever watched, can't get enough of it, I watch it over and over
The fact that pirates refused to release Mac OS 8 to save Apple..
Such class
History of Mac OS X and up will be posted next Sunday! (Happy 42nd birthday, Apple!)
I love this video
JMK OS hi I love it too
Can you do History of the Magic Mouse please please please
Do history of iOS
Nice, I subscribed
My favorite classic Mac OS is the System 7 era. It's perhaps because that was the period I began using Macs, but I think it's more because it still retained much of the look and feel of the first couple of versions which established them. To this day, I love its "flat" but only slightly three-dimensional look. Gosh, in this video I spotted many little accessories and commands that I'd forgotten about. Mac OS 8 and 9 while introducing many important new features, were ugly to me.
MacOS "9" debuted in 1999. Sounds right.
This missed a lot of functionality that was unique to the classic Mac OS. For example:
- file and label colors (yes those eventually came to OSX but in a worse form)
- folder tabs that could be created by dragging a folder to the edge of the screen
- native 3D model support via drag and drop and the clipboard
- a truly spatial Finder
- exceptional drag and drop support within the OS and 3rd party apps. Need to install an OS from another disk? Drag and drop. Install an extension/driver/font? Drag and drop. Need to save some text or a bookmark for later? Drag it to the desktop.
That's how I bricked my LC. I dragged the 'Sound' Control Panel from a System 6 disk to my LC's Hard Disk, and opened it.
The Finder ver 7.5 did not like that, and subsequently got lost upon reboot.
I then used System 7.0 install disks to reinstall the entire OS.
I think I was 11 or 12 when I did that, good times.
This is interesting, but what does "a truly spatial Finder" mean?
@@elijahcorpus3 If I had to guess its that classic Mac OS Finder fully embraced that it was a bunch of windows. Modern Mac OS Finder is far more elegant but does have a sort of disconnect around if it wants to be like the classic finder or if it wants to embrace acting more like a web browser with tabs. (Windows Explorer also suffers from this) And it results in kind of a mishmash. However its still far more capable at every level- just inconsistent.
Ah memories. Give me a copy of System 7, Cassidy & Greene's Conflict Catcher, and Word 5.1, and I'll still be a happy man.
*Mac
@Agnostik. System 7 had better aesthetics.
Conflict Catcher, LOL. I used that. For the Extensions Mgr. which I ended having to use more than I wanted. Don't forget ClarisWorks (AppleWorks) which I still use.
You forgot Crystal Quest which had the most hilarious sound effects
I love learning about older macs. I have a 500mhz indigo iMac g3 from the summer of 2000. It is awesome.
The iMac G3 is such a cool computer! I'm jealous, I would like the "Flower Power" iMac G3!
I have a emac
I have macintosh plus with broken solder joint on pin 1 of j4 but I'm going to fix it
I have a MacBook Pro 2017 lol
Maaannn seeing OS 7 takes me back to the old days when I used to have a Macintosh PowerPC. This was my first ever computer and takes me back to those days.
9:31 thats MacOS 9! You can tell by the app name appearing on the right, the top bar having hard corners (8 was rounded) and the system font looks a bit different.
The only memory that I have of either OS 8 or 9 was a program that had Homer Simpson watch the mouse and he would also make noises if you clicked on him. Four year old me loved that and it drove my uncle nuts.
Thank you so much 😊
What is that "Mac OS 7 clone market" you're talking about?
That might be a good topic for a video.
I think it was when Apple was trying to sell the OS to other manufacturers to try to keep on their feet
It's a cool conecept this channel has going, but honestly these videos seem like you're reading a wikipedia page. There's nothing unique going on. Most of the time the graphics on screen don't link up to what you're saying.
Brings back a lot of memories!!
You mean nostalgia
The early Mac reminds me of the experience of running a Linux desktop PC based upon a Raspberry Pi 3. It's actually enough to be serviceable, and even snappy as long as you aren't watching UA-cam videos, but absent of frills.
My first Mac was a Performa running MacOS 7.5.3.
SWLinPHX my first was a Macintosh Classic given to me from my college which was going to trash it. I got a bunch of others from a Performa 466 to a Power Macintosh 6300 as cheap as $7 from a Goodwill store. They ran Classic OS which if an app crashed would force a restart which I hated since Windows would just close the offending app. The Classic Mac forums never forgave my legitimate criticism at the time and perma banned me over it.
My first Mac was the iMac G3 Orange.
I had one of those! It was a second hand one but it served me well at the time. It used to crash a lot, but I liked it. It was my first and last Mac experience til I finally saw the light in 2010 and made the switch from Windows. Typing this on a Macbook Air running High Sierra
@@GalaxyDeem Tangerine you mean?
What's that toolbar at the bottom left corner of system 7 thru 9? It looks like I see buttons for hardware controls like volume, maybe a sleep button? There's so many.
Trash bulging looks amazing and I want it back
I had system seven on my mac when I was a kid, man do I feel old lol...god damn, did you have to know what you were doing with computers back then. When I transitioned to using DOS I was super confused for sure! 90's kid problems, eh?
You forgot to talk about the mac videogame called ESCAPE VELOCITY! that game was amazing!! It is like my childhood I wish I had an old mac computer just to play it again.
HELP! I want to recover some data from an old floppy disk. What would be the most likely volume and filesystem on floppies from OS6 to OS8?
Also what was cool was that Apple supported running OS 9 Classic on OS X up until I think OS X Leopard or Tiger. It allowed users to still run old games (and I'm sure more) that were only available on OS 9 or just be nostalgic. I still wish they supported that.
I still have a 2000 PowerMac G4 that runs Classic (on Tiger).
Sadly, what caused them to drop support of that was the transition from PowerPC to Intel processors. Classic, rather than being emulated, was an actual install of OS 8.6 through 9.22 that ran in an isolated software box that they originally referred to as Blue Box (If I am remembering correctly) Nowadays there are ways to emulate classic era macOS, but they aren't all stable...
Its watching a concept move from embryo to what we have today. The classic Mac OS era really shows the bridge between the Apple II era and its transition into the basics of what we except now for a Personal Computer.
The Lisa wasn't the first computer with a GUI. That distinction goes to the Xerox Alto.
The failure.
xerox was not the first developers of the GUI. they may have research and implemented many things we associate with that, but a graphical UI was being used in computers before them. they just didn't catch on
I love the 1991 MacOS 7 UI
Please do history of iOS/iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch
technology develops very quickly
You had to...buy Mac Terminal separately?! I feel like that needs its own history lesson.
lol...My family sold these amazing machines...they were as much a part of my upbringing any as a person at that time. I remember sneaking the first PowerBook Duo into my tree house and playing Civilization 1 throughout the whole night, falling asleep and then waking up to a soaking wet machine due to the rain that made its way through the open window of the tree house. I had to lie and told my Dad that I was looking at machine when I accidental knocked a glass of water on it. If I told him I stole it out of the office to play a game in the tree house and let it get rained on I wouldn't be writing this now. It cost $2200.00 in 1992 that's almost $4000.00 today!
1:31 Xerox Alto left the chat:
What if you were to divide by zero on the Macintosh System Software?
I had phonerescue on this computer and didn't know what it was :P
Actually the first computer with a GUI was the xerox alto
Love it
OS9 at the end of the vid was running at light speed!
Mac os9, my first family computer
This was the evolution of the Face ID logo
Didn't the Alto predate the Lisa with its GUI?
nah, the first OS with a graphical interface and mouse cursor technically ran on the Xerox Palo Alto STAR, which Apple bought to make this Macintosh System software (but technically the STAR was never "commercially available")
Still love OS9 a lot better. It was so fast and far more intuitive. Took me years to really get used to OSX.
did you love manually assigning memory to apps? did you love that when an app crashed that it would bring the whole system down?
@@williamreynish827 "Maybe if I force Photoshop to use an additional 32mb of RAM it will stop crashing everything?"
I agree with the fast comment. I recently dug out my old Power Macintosh G4 Sawtooth 500MHz machine and fired it up. It has Mac OS X Tiger 4.11 and Mac OS 9.22 on it. OS9 is definitely faster and still has a few features that aren't in OS X, or the current macOS releases. Sadly web browsing is nearly impossible on that machine due to changing security standards on the web. It is slightly better in tiger than in OS9 but only slightly
Oh, so the little face is a computer! That makes a lot more sense.
Does this channel clarify any of their errors?
First Mac OS had a calculator but the iPads doesn’t 🧐
UP GP38-2 706 they used to not
I got introduced to Macs with Mac OS X Sierra. (Yes, I know it was macOS by that point, but I think Mac OS X sounds cooler.)
I’m pretty sure System 6 could keep items in the trash across restarts.
and here I am, waiting for the next major update. Mac OS 11. is it ever gonna happen?
@Collin Gleaton or "X.xx" path, LOL
@Collin Gleaton this didn't age well
Your voice!!! Is so beautiful...
First interface like this was by Xerox
No mention of QuickTime?
0:55 Rocky on Macintosh
I believe System 7 was the longest active latest OS, lasting about six or seven years.
Special thanks to iMovie for sponsoring this video!
SCSI, lol --- it's Scuzzy , I can tell the narrator isn't the writer of the script
Tom Servo It is, but I can also pronounce the letters _seperately._
Yes service in Rutland, BC. Cant use phone!
I grew up using MacOS 7-9 during grade school.
MacOS - MACINTOSH OPERATING SYSTEM
- macOS is modern mac mini to imac pro.
-MacOS 9 and lower is the classic
- goal: appliance-like symplicity
- macintosh system software
Soon named (operating) system 1, Like finder: filemanager Responsible for managing apps, files, disk, network volumes.
-Lisa has the first cursor with graphical interface.
- has 5 different header for menu bar:Apple menu, file, edit, View, Special.
- also feature 7 desk accesory: Alarm clock, Calculator, Control pannel for pc settings Like volume mouse sensitivity desktop background. Original Ctrl System only uses icons and no text to demonstrate the graphical user interface. Keycaps on screen keyboard, Notepad notes are saved in the floppy disk.
- can only run one application at a time due to the lack of ram. Along with the trash deleted once the PC is shut down
nobody seems to talk about the fact that this was posted on april 1st
So? Why does it matter. I need to know
@@vakancy yo i was just pointing it out, lol
What is that at 1:32
I think my G4 ran 9... and it deleted data most effectively.
system 7.2.3 my first mac
What the source of this talk ???
Good video
The apple Lisa was not the first computer to feature a GUI with mouse cursor, menus. etc. It was copied from Xeriox after Xerox showed jobs a graphical computer they were working on.
George Gardei seriously no one, not even Apple Explained, remembers the GS/OS from the Apple IIgs which laid the foundation for the Mac system software
Nick Dalzell the Apple IIgs was released long after the first Mac.
I think I must have used Mac OS 7 on a clone Mac in my elementary school.
Steve Jobs is awesome ! Yes Steve Jobs is ruthless and hard to get along with if you try to be the boss around him, but i love the Steve Jobs that drove Apple to what it is today. I could never work for Steve Jobs but I can enjoy his products.
So then OS 7 was the MacOS from 1991-1997? Is that correct? Wow, loooong time.
Yes it was. The longest in the history of Mac.
Left out Hyper-card
Video starts at 0:18, btw.
He didn't mention the very brief period (one year) where Apple licensed companies like Motorola & UMAX to make Apple clone machines.
Never mind, he did. He mentions how Jobs put an end to that with 7.6
Did anyone get suspicious that this was published on April 1st?😬
How is this not an April fool's joke?!
there was a windows add on this
History of all Apple computer and laptops
'Built in Memory: 256 MB' _oof_
Martin Vibart what do you expect, 64gb of ram in a 1984 computer?
Toasted i belive that 256mb is not ram, its actually hard drive
@@someiyoshino4128 the narrator ment 256kb of ram not 256mb of ram. 256mb was not on any pc until the late 90s
I was stuck with 9.0.4 on my old B&W G3 for 8 years until I was finally able to afford a Mac Mini. I had an ATI TV Tuner card, a SoundBlaster card (only one ever made for Mac), and an old Castlewood ORB 2.2GB Disk Drive. None of these companies provided software updates compatible with any Mac os post 9.0.4. That still pisses me off to this day. However 9.0.4 was solid as hell and it served me very well. There are times I still miss and prefer it.
Mac OS 8.6 was the best Mac OS of all time.
Super dude
Main age mint
Notification squad
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I would like to know why Apple keep releasing Mac OS X versions instead of releasing Mac OS XI
Well think of X as the the second half of the Macintosh history. So each version of 10 is more like the original versions 1-9 rather than a decimal point update.
Does Mac OS X have Macintosh?
Oh no I saw *Macshit* OS on title
I never had a mac 😭
And your reason?
Vienna Binders in Brazil the Apple computers are expensive as f*ck, even my car costs less than a used mac
Me too. the Macbooks in my country are effing expensive! S$2k to S$3k for a used MacBook!
Vienna Binders the cheapest version of the Mac mini costs R$3500,00, for me are two months of work in my job ☹️
That's Apple ya
Hey, ITS me today you Made a new video :)
Classic Mac. The worst operating systems at any of my elementary, middle, and high schools. The frustration of sitting in front of a computer with a spinning colored wheel with no indication of wtf the computer was doing still raises my blood pressure. They were HORRIBLE.
Classic Mac Systems/MacOS was actually really great if someone didn't muck up the extensions at boot time. Sounds like some more savvy students were trolling everyone else. Of course they were probably on LCs or Performas running At Ease...man I hated At Ease
@@lorien42 Hah! Yes, Extension management could be tricky if you were loading too many. It was fun seeing them load along the bottom of the screen at boot, though. The LC's were terrible. I used to avoid them at my college computer lab, and preferred to use the little compact Macs they had because they actually seemed faster! Then one of the labs upgraded to the first PPC Macs, and that was it, I never went to the other two. LOL