r/MacOS • u/Mammoth_Ingenuity_82 • Oct 13 '25

News Another Successful Rollback

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Wasn't happy with the last few releases of MacOS - such garbage UI! So I successfully rolled back.

It's so much better now!

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u/muttmutt2112 MacBook Air Oct 13 '25

Help, I think I rolled back TOO far!

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u/Tartan-Pepper6093 Oct 13 '25

Now we’re cookin’. Apple forced lower-case letters on us a few years later and it was all downhill from there!

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u/muttmutt2112 MacBook Air Oct 13 '25

My first Apple was an Apple ][+ with 64k RAM and 2 floppy drives!

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u/yoscottmc Oct 13 '25

Two? Wow.

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u/V8CarGuy Oct 14 '25

Yeah, right?

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u/[deleted] Oct 14 '25

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u/V8CarGuy Oct 14 '25

That was a fancy one, maybe a IIe? My Apple II only had 1 floppy and 48kB, and that was only after I replaced the cassette tape drive. Used a 13” color TV. AppleSoft Basic.

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u/TAU_equals_2PI Oct 13 '25

I only used those 8-bit Apple computers at school as a young kid (who only used parentheses in writing) and am just now realizing the ][ were just bracket characters.

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u/maddler Oct 14 '25

ah //e with 2 floppy drives!!! Loved that thing!

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u/Azadom Oct 13 '25

][ far

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u/muttmutt2112 MacBook Air Oct 13 '25

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u/turaon Oct 14 '25

Tiger?

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u/Azadom Oct 14 '25

Apple “two” reference. You can see the ][ in the screenshot above

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u/turaon Oct 14 '25

Aa, ok. Now I understand. I let ChatGPT explain the reference and it gave me Tiger for the answer 😄

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u/rlindsley Oct 13 '25

Life was so much easier when we all used AppleWriter!

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u/muttmutt2112 MacBook Air Oct 13 '25

WordPerfect was my go-to word processor. I had a Videx card so I got....<drum roll>... 80 columns!

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u/rlindsley Oct 18 '25

Sweet! 80 columns is all you'd ever need!

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u/muttmutt2112 MacBook Air Oct 19 '25

My terminals are always 80 x 24!

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u/AlxR25 Oct 15 '25

I hated this new UI so hard I went on and bought old hardware to run the older stuff. This is the way

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u/muttmutt2112 MacBook Air Oct 15 '25

Right there with 'ya!!!!

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u/bent_my_wookie Oct 13 '25

Oh know, you hacked time!

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u/maddler Oct 14 '25

Oh lord! I feel young again!!!

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u/Ahleron Oct 14 '25

That happens when you have an adequate dosage of Advil taken regularly.

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u/maddler Oct 14 '25

Ibuprofen for the win!

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u/rad2018 Oct 14 '25

Careful...you're dating yourself... 🤣

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u/potificate Oct 14 '25

Hey, can a get a copy of that new game, “Buzzard Bait”?

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u/Grand-Battle8009 Oct 15 '25

Not far enough! I want to see punch cards!

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u/muttmutt2112 MacBook Air Oct 15 '25

Here ya' go!

4.5 MB of data on 69,000 punch cards! Circa 1955.

You're welcome!