#system7 — Public Fediverse posts
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nice walk down memory lane. I believe my earliest experience with MacOS was System 7.5.3 so a little past the revelation of 7.0 but still far enough back that I remember stuff like Conflict Catcher, using AppleScript for everything, the controversy of Copland and the sad reign of Gil Amelio before Jobs returned.
https://www.macworld.com/article/3136937
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Gotta say I was a weeency bit disappointed when I booted Fedora 43 into Linux kernel 7.0.4 and wasn't greeted with THIS... 😁
cc: @dm
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Listening to System 7, "Flower of Life"
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RE: https://mastodon.decentralised.social/@wezm/115890456859997099
One good thing about the never-ending list of UI regressions in the new #MacOS (eg https://tonsky.me/blog/tahoe-icons/) – is it's making one of my New Year resolutions to 'this year learn driving or Linux' seem realistic.
I've always told myself it's helpful to use leading, well-funded UI/UX to learn from it (eg, am currently setting up an online shop for our new books on WooCommerce not Civi). But for the first time since starting with #System7, there's a MacOS UI I'm praying I never have to 'upgrade' to.
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The way icons are going on macOS, can we at least have our System 7 icons back, but remade in 512x512 pixels?
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Who remembers #Kaleidoscope for the #Mac #System7 from back in the day? https://web.archive.org/web/20110928000634/http://kaleidoscope.net/
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New post: Gig Review: Ozric Tentacles / System 7 – Concorde2, Brighton (28th November 2025) https://www.moshville.co.uk/reviews/gig-review/2025/12/gig-review-ozric-tentacles-system-7-concorde2-brighton-28th-november-2025/ #OzricTentacles #System7
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🎉 BREAKING NEWS: Time travelers rejoice! 🎉 Finally, the Mac mini G4 can run System 7 natively—because, you know, who needs all those fancy modern features when you can enjoy the cutting-edge technology of 1991? 🙄
https://macos9lives.com/smforum/index.php?topic=7711.0 #TimeTravelers #MacMiniG4 #System7 #RetroTech #Nostalgia #HackerNews #ngated -
System 7 natively boots on the Mac mini G4
https://macos9lives.com/smforum/index.php?topic=7711.0
#HackerNews #System7 #MacMini #G4 #RetroComputing #ClassicMacs #AppleHistory
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It's nice to see users here with old System 7 era icons as avatars. The icon style for System 7 is really unique since I can recognise them instantly.
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@Ashedryden Would #System7 #HighPlainsDrifter fit the bill? (I would hope that nearly everything System 7 / 777 would fit this, actually)
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System 7 do Mac portado para o x86… Com a ajuda da IA.
https://retropolis.com.br/2025/11/11/system-7-do-mac-portado-para-o-x86-com-a-ajuda-da-ia/
#MundoRetro #IA #IntelignciaArtificial #LLM #Macintosh #port #System7 #x86
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@bazkie @axwax @wordsmith @ahihi do you use YouTube? #System7 is my other weakness…
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Un portage du System 7.1 pour les puces x86 grâce à l'IA http://dlvr.it/TNN27V #Apple #System7
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Macintosh System 7 Ported To x86 With LLM Help https://hackaday.com/2025/09/29/macintosh-system-7-ported-to-x86-with-llm-help/ #MachineLearning #Retrocomputing #macintosh #system7 #port #LLM #ai
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Macintosh System 7 Ported To x86 With LLM Help - You can use large language models for all sorts of things these days, from writing... - https://hackaday.com/2025/09/29/macintosh-system-7-ported-to-x86-with-llm-help/ #machinelearning #retrocomputing #macintosh #system7 #port #llm #ai
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An Emulated Stroll Down Macintosh Memory Lane - If you’re into Macs, you’ll always remember your first. Maybe it was the revolutio... - https://hackaday.com/2025/07/10/an-emulated-stroll-down-macintosh-memory-lane/ #macintoshclassic #computerhistory #retrocomputing #uidesign #system7 #macosx #os8 #os9
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An Emulated Stroll Down Macintosh Memory Lane https://hackaday.com/2025/07/10/an-emulated-stroll-down-macintosh-memory-lane/ #macintoshclassic #computerhistory #Retrocomputing #retrocomputing #UIdesign #system7 #macosx #os8 #os9
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@kalleboo @me_ What always made me wonder (not having programmed System 6/7 back in the days): There _were_ applications that handled memory allocation dynamically (e.g. some versions of Graphicconverter), and some text editors where I forgot the names, where it was _not_ necessary to adjust the memory allocation for an program in the Finder manually.
This dynamic memory API/functionality capability seemed to be added to System 7 back then. It always occured to me that RAM Doubler was a cure for programs that didn’t use newer APIs but the “old” pre System7 way of allocating memory fixed through settings in the Finder.
But, this is obsevation is deduction and guessing. Would be great to read here from someone with actual knowledge of the memory manager of System 7.
Perhaps @Cdespinosa can help or reach out?
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Search my computer for "Mac Paint" ... it suggests Wikipedia.
Search the internet for "mac paint internet archive" ... it emulates it!
https://archive.org/details/mac_Paint_2Infinite nostalgia.
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CW: 2023 (Personal)
Goal:
Untangle my computer use from any commercial/capitalist presets...https://xkcd.com/743/
https://mastodon.social/@mcc/109683380376727036For 2023 a #LibreComputer AML-S905X-CC (#LePotato) (2GB) is my personal base level hardware platform
Anything I develop/make has to be usable on the current base level hardware platform
https://toadwater.net/Permacomputing.html
"A useful frame of mind is thinking about your computer as offline first. You work with your computer and occasionally have network access. This usually means having data locally and occasionally synchronizing it with others."
#LocalFirst #OfflineFirst
#FrugalComputing #SustanableComputing #NetZeroComputingExpect to run zsh, X11, openbox(?), Emacs, terminal, neomutt, newsboat, mastodon?, tor, i2p?
Test if Gnome is usable... ? xfce? CDE? is GnuStep still active? no desktop?
Get used to do #Email, #UseNet, #Gopher, #IRC, #RSS in #terminal or #Emacs
Use #Emacs and #TeΧ to write (dead tree) letters and missives (PDF?)
Maybe do more in #RawText?
Do callender things again on paper/pencil, #43folders, Whiteboard, etc.. physical things
Expand use of Gopher, Gemini, IndieWeb?
IM.. #XMPP via Dino? +OMEMO
Find a sustainable open source alternative for keybase? Or develop a distributed alternative using tor or i2p? Trust via FOAF?
Develop in #Pascal, #Lisp, #Ruby, #Haskell, #Scheme, #Forth :D
Keep repositories in #mercurial,
maybe source hut?Find an #anonymous #pseudonymous hosting solution... shell account?... like rawtext.club, tildeverse.org, sdf.org .. ...my own?
Get a low power #amd64 box? bc too many FOSS projects are still not platform independent & x86 only v.v
Optimize to run many VMs?
Maybe can run #android in VM and run banking, insurance, and other apps there? Otherwise maybe get an used M1 mac and run the #iOS apps? perhaps some <100 euro android phones will do as well? otherwise get an iPad mini and use that for the next 5-6 yrs
Maybe set up a #FileServer (#NAS?) maybe even network boot? and perhaps even a #Postgresql database? Is having SQL DB available on the local network going to be useful? What about other databases?
#DigitalCampfires (#Tumblr? Blogs?)
https://maggieappleton.com/garden-history
https://tomcritchlow.com/2018/10/10/of-gardens-and-wikis/
https://wiki.c2.com/?WikiGardener
https://joelhooks.com/digital-garden
Bring #DigitalGardens to the "#TheDarkNet" and set up basecamp there, #tor onion services, a p2p chat/IM app, etc.. also explore #i2p and see how to simplify using it.
#DigitalHome?
(Tilde?)Get back into #AI (but forget Artificial Intelligence, Artificial Innocence?) I want Augmented Intelligencekm
Explore as many other fun projects as well ... Who knows, I might like them and use them more often...
eg: #Guix #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD #Minix #RiscV #Plan9 (#9Front) #RedoxOS #SmallTalk (#Pharo) #GoLang #RetroComputing #System7 #RiscOS #HaikuOS #Forth #Microcontrollers #68K #MIPS #PowerPC #HomeBrewComputer——
