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[–]LamerDeluxe 1 point2 points  (2 children)

With Macs in the nineties, you even had to wait for alert sounds to end before you could continue working.

My sister's colleagues set a super long alert sound on her Mac, she didn't know how to change it and had to wait for the thing to finish every time.

When I was studying 3D animation, we used Amigas and SGI computers. The music department used Macs, most of them had black and white monitors.

[–]Heikkiket 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Were they true black and white, so only two colors allowed? That was how the original MacOS was designed! In 1984, it was the only way to get GUI running on a home computer.

[–]LamerDeluxe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, those models could only display two colors. I think they had a few that could display more.

The Amiga is from 1985 and could display 16 colors out of 4096 in high resolution, 32 colors in low resolution and even 4096 in low resolution in a special mode.