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Reminds me of what that "Read Me" icon might've looked like: https://winworldpc.com/product/mac-os-7/76

System 7, fun times.

I remember:

  * tapping on a folder icon and then a bunch of rumbling in the cage from hard drives back then.
  * the excitement with controlling a virtual world using a graphical user interface.
Still exciting.


Also:

* Doing the floppy shuffle on a system without a hard drive.

We were still at the stage of "all computers are miraculous" and along came the mac with graphics/UI consistency and quality which just seemed impossible.

I still find computing amazing, but those early days of wonder and awe were great.


The era of more RAM than disk was a fun one.




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