rashbre central: System 7 revisited

Saturday 28 April 2018

System 7 revisited


Continuing my recent post's look at some old technology, here's another one.

This time it's Macintosh System 7 which later came to be known as MacOS 7. This emulated version from The Internet Archive self installs on a modern Mac in a couple of minutes (subject to line speed etc). The original version came on 15 floppy disks.

A small tip is to disable any adblocker for the archive.org domain to make it work properly.

You get a functional version of System 7 (Big Bang) complete with the once revered Hypercard and a copy of Microsoft Word, complete with templates and some games including -er- Risk.

It starts up with a proper system bleep and the whole thing runs in a Safari browser window, and looks surprisingly tiny on a modern Mac.

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