Mac128
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Like most vintage Mac users, I've heard the story that the original 1984 Macintosh Guided Tour contains old-style icons and system features (indeed it is coded as System .85), because at the last minute Apple found a bug that prevented the Guided Tour from running under the final shipping operating System 1.0 (v.97). Of course that story makes complete sense, but is it true?
I just did a search on the internet and found absolutely nothing corroborating that story. And I can't remember where I read it originally. Could it too be just another urban legend that has been circulated around the vintage Mac posts based on someone's original speculation about why the Tour disk looks radically different?
The first two versions of the User's Guide also contained details that more closely resemble the System .85 used on the Tour Disk. In fact it was not revised until System 1.1 release in April 1984.
Perhaps there was never a problem at all and no one bothered to revise it because they were working so hard to finish the actual operating system in time? Anybody have some references they can supply to support this one way or the other?
I just did a search on the internet and found absolutely nothing corroborating that story. And I can't remember where I read it originally. Could it too be just another urban legend that has been circulated around the vintage Mac posts based on someone's original speculation about why the Tour disk looks radically different?
The first two versions of the User's Guide also contained details that more closely resemble the System .85 used on the Tour Disk. In fact it was not revised until System 1.1 release in April 1984.
Perhaps there was never a problem at all and no one bothered to revise it because they were working so hard to finish the actual operating system in time? Anybody have some references they can supply to support this one way or the other?