First post, by rmay635703
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Anyone else remember B&W Mac software you had to boot like a PC?
Back in the day (90’s) the JR High had a full lab of networked dual floppy Mac Pluses
They all were connected to a single Mac SE with ImageWriter
I took typing class there and although I never thought much about it
I strongly remember having to eject the system disk, putting in the learning software disk and rebooting to startup the Mouse training Software
Which I found to be quite impressive with a fully animated talking diver demonstrating the OS mouse features, how to drag stuff, highlight, etc with undersea creatures.
This always stuck with me even though a computer with only floppy drives was commonplace even then.
And booters were common as well.
Maybe it was the crisp well animated B&W graphics
Anyone remember booter software on the Mac?
Anyone know what the mouse training program I am speaking of was called?
I have a feeling it may have been very old, possibly made for the old fat Macs.
The other Mac program that was somewhat similar was Truebasic on the Mac.
I otherwise ran Mavis Beacon and had to take tests , save homework and sometimes print things off in the lab.
The file server was so slow the teacher would have us load the file of the day 1 at a time waiting for the previous person to finish
Ah the memories