Welcome to the Mac Help forum!

Hi all,

As you may have read, Devshed today announced it's new Mac forum, as part of the "Operating Systems" section.

Anyway, as a Mac user and enthusiast, I'd like to welcome you all to our brand new forum – Mac Help! And encourage you to post any Mac related problems, thoughts and questions that you might have . Naturally this can be about anything you'd like, from new Mac hardware to installing Mac OS X or software development with Cocoa and Xcode!

Finally, just to break the ice, and to end this post nicely: what major version of the Mac OS did you first use when you came to the Mac; "Classic" or "OS X".

Have fun everyone,

Mark.

Oops! Force of habit had me thinking this was the Windows OS forum, sorry

Where does Apple DOS 3.3 fit in?

My first system that I remember was 7.5. However, I probably used some before that, as my parents had older macs that I have no recolection of. (from when I was like 3)

Wow, thats a pretty long time ago . The first version of Mac OS that I used was 9 and in college we had OS X. Then I think it was in my work placement when I first used a Mac properly. Anyone else want to add to this, just post your first Mac experience in here .

It's recent enough that I was alive

os 7.6??? or something like that... the one that came with the quadra 700 (cost me an arm and a leg)... but my first exposure one was an apple IIe with loadrunner...

my first computer was an amiga, so the transition was pretty smooth.

OK, looks like im the newb' here since I started with OSX. Still, I'm sure I'll learn a lot from both of you .

My dad had an Amiga when I was younger, can't say I was a big fan though. It was good for some things but a little under powered . The first computer I ever owned was just a box standard PC; a marked improvement but .

I think a better question would be - "which was the Apple OS that you liked "

My first apple os was 9. Hated it. Still hate it.

OSX on the other hand is a completely different story.

I don't really remember since it was such a long time ago, but I think it was either OS 7/8.

used 8 and 9 at school, sucked, rather use dos. Have OSX on my PC now, its fun to play with, if i had a powerbook, i would use it all the time, seeing i don't have the $$$$ for that kind of stuff, i will stay with just emulating it on XP.

Definatley Mac OS X. I think almost everyone will say that.

Morning Simon, Locke,

I would agree with you on that one but I wanted a question that every Mac could answer. Though I did actually consider your Question.

But If like me have only really used OSX then you couldn't really say I like one over the other . So I went for the one that I thought would get the most people talking.

That said, If anyone does wants to answer what’s you fav' Mac OS go right a head: I'm with OSX aswell since I've heard that developing for Classic was a little "troublesome" .

[The Unix base and Cocoa framework played good part in my switching; and It all looked so beautiful too].

Mark.

Wow, you guys are making me feel old. I think it was system 5, but not sure. It was 1985 and my mac has a whopping 128MB of RAM and ran off of floppies -- hard drives were way to expensive then.

Through the years, I've had an assortment of computer, including Windoze and Linux, but have always had Mac on my desk.

We've come a long way baby. But honestly, all those systems before X were near as bad as you guys are making them out to be -- at least not compared to Win 3.

Hey thanks for the trip in the way-back machine!