Windows couldn’t match the flexibility and ease of use of the Mac OS until several versions later. I’ve always been interested in why the Macintosh OS has looked so good and was so easy to use from its first release. Even though our PC was by far the more powerful computer, I preferred using the Macs at school due their good looks and ease of use. We had a 75 MHz Pentium PC at home running Windows for Workgroups 3.11. My school district is very poor, so even though it was 1997, we were using five-year-old LC IIs. My first experience with Macs was in second grade when we were finally old enough to “graduate” from Apple IIs. I specialize in the lowest of the low-end spectrum, and I’ll be covering Apple’s older Macintosh operating systems starting from 1.0 and working up to 6.0.8 – and the Macs that run them.
