Older OSes Still dependable

 I have my 5 yr old daughter set up with an iMac (from back in the day)... since she was 3-1/2 and had installed 8.6 on it and I have to say... it is still chugging along like a champ.... through countless freezes in games (not due to the system but the game itself, where an item gets literally stuck where it is)
 And the fix?? Too simple.. just turn-off the multi switch, turn it back on... turn the machine on and... viola!!

 It still has the fastest boot and shutdown times I have ever seen, and the original desktop wallpapers from then are still some of the prettiest I have seen even to this day.. (She loves the pink jellies )
 Granted, it's an old OS but, I am still able to find new children's-educational software (as well as other stuff) to purchase for it. And it has not ever mattered how many programs I install on this machine, it never seems to slow down.

 I have newer Mac OSes... the latest being 10.2 Jaguar (which I think was Macs best ever... ever compared to anything newer) But, 8.6 is just a perfect match for my lil Princess..... Cool it has the slot-drive CD/DVD as well too so she watches movies on it sometimes and the picture is beautiful

 So, my cousin was over, who has his boys on WIndows XP and he was amazed how quickly I had her back up after a game froze... and the fact that it has happend numerous times (I told him) and there is never any lasting effects to the OS.... where his boy's machines are an absolute mess?

 I'm wondering, anyone else here have or remember any old OSes like this which remain so great?

haha, not personally, but I do know for a fact that Windows 98 operates a hell lot better than windows Vista!

I sometimes remember my SuSE 9.1 days. 

Yeah I still remember my suse 7 days sometimes. I can remember yast taking about 3 weeks to update it's cache. 

Had my dad not took my old 33Mhz 486 machine and made it into a showcase display machine for my brother's Boy Scouts project, I'd still be using Windows 3.11. Good days, those were. And as slow as that machine was, I was able to play Quake on it (albeit very slowly).

I miss my old machine...

Had my dad not took my old 33Mhz 486 machine and made it into a showcase display machine for my brother's Boy Scouts project, I'd still be using Windows 3.11. Good days, those were. And as slow as that machine was, I was able to play Quake on it (albeit very slowly).

I miss my old machine...

I too have fond memories of win 3.1 and an old 386 machine I learned a lot on, and have since forgot. Unfortunately programs soon started to not run on 3.1 that I wanted updated versions of.

I have my 5 yr old daughter set up with an iMac (from back in the day)... since she was 3-1/2 and had installed 8.6 on it and I have to say... it is still chugging along like a champ.... through countless freezes in games (not due to the system but the game itself, where an item gets literally stuck where it is)
 And the fix?? Too simple.. just turn-off the multi switch, turn it back on... turn the machine on and... viola!!

 It still has the fastest boot and shutdown times I have ever seen, and the original desktop wallpapers from then are still some of the prettiest I have seen even to this day.. (She loves the pink jellies )
 Granted, it's an old OS but, I am still able to find new children's-educational software (as well as other stuff) to purchase for it. And it has not ever mattered how many programs I install on this machine, it never seems to slow down.

 I have newer Mac OSes... the latest being 10.2 Jaguar (which I think was Macs best ever... ever compared to anything newer) But, 8.6 is just a perfect match for my lil Princess..... Cool it has the slot-drive CD/DVD as well too so she watches movies on it sometimes and the picture is beautiful

 So, my cousin was over, who has his boys on WIndows XP and he was amazed how quickly I had her back up after a game froze... and the fact that it has happend numerous times (I told him) and there is never any lasting effects to the OS.... where his boy's machines are an absolute mess?

 I'm wondering, anyone else here have or remember any old OSes like this which remain so great?

Still have my olde Mac color classic running 7.6. It boots up in about 20 seconds.

(funny thing is I have XP booting up in about 25 seconds from a cold start) not bad, considering I haven't tweaked it in anyway.

As regards your daughters' machine freezing in game play .. I reckon its a combination of lack of ram plus a sluggish video card.

Macs weren't exactly reknown for their use of cutting edge 'speed demon' video cards..

Cheers

Aqua

 Oh, no... I maybe had not explained it right about the freezing... the iMac actually has 300 somethin- mb ram (I forget exactly been so long since I opened it up) and the vid card is actually pretty good and plays DVD movies without flaw...  while doing maybe two or three other things.
 One of the games that locks up on her.. is Tonka. There are spots on the game itself, where bulldozers, etc literally get "stuck" and you can't get them out so everything is just..."well, stuck"
 She can still click on various parts and get the usual functions.. but, until the dozer is placed back on the train you cannot exit that part of the game. It's actually a programming flaw in the game itself

Similar thing occurs in Cro Mag & Bugdom.

I found flaws in both games, where I would end up driving out into a field of nothingness except for the sun... In Bugdom, I could look back and see the 'island' of land dissapearing behind me.

 For something extra special, I'd sometimes ride the back of a dragonfly above the the bee tunnel level. (Your meant ot be in it, not above it)

It was really funny to hear the bees in the tunnel. Sometimes, they would angrily jab at the tunnel roof..and you could see their barbs coming thorugh..

All in all, it was weird to discover these 'outside  badlands'..

I used to explore them for hours, looking at the structures and frameworks that built up the mountians, rivers and valleys..

Aqua

I have my 5 yr old daughter set up with an iMac (from back in the day)... since she was 3-1/2 and had installed 8.6 on it and I have to say... it is still chugging along like a champ.... through countless freezes in games (not due to the system but the game itself, where an item gets literally stuck where it is)
 And the fix?? Too simple.. just turn-off the multi switch, turn it back on... turn the machine on and... viola!!

 It still has the fastest boot and shutdown times I have ever seen, and the original desktop wallpapers from then are still some of the prettiest I have seen even to this day.. (She loves the pink jellies )
 Granted, it's an old OS but, I am still able to find new children's-educational software (as well as other stuff) to purchase for it. And it has not ever mattered how many programs I install on this machine, it never seems to slow down.

 I have newer Mac OSes... the latest being 10.2 Jaguar (which I think was Macs best ever... ever compared to anything newer) But, 8.6 is just a perfect match for my lil Princess..... Cool it has the slot-drive CD/DVD as well too so she watches movies on it sometimes and the picture is beautiful

 So, my cousin was over, who has his boys on WIndows XP and he was amazed how quickly I had her back up after a game froze... and the fact that it has happend numerous times (I told him) and there is never any lasting effects to the OS.... where his boy's machines are an absolute mess?

 I'm wondering, anyone else here have or remember any old OSes like this which remain so great?

well I still run Amiga under emulation on my XP box
still the best single user OS ever !
been trying to get it working on Linux but no luck so far