I worked at Apple Retail during the Snow Leopard launch. I think I still have a boxed disk somewhere, too. I remember it was not a product I had to sell to customers. People came in asking for it.

Another highlight of that job was selling a green iPod Nano to "John Locke" from LOST

Those were the days…

The most ridiculous thing that happend to me was in the early days of the Apple Store in SOHO I stopped in to see if I could just buy RAM.

The music was loud so it was like I was speaking loudly to be heard and asked for RAM and the they thought I was asking if I could buy a gram.

Interesting that you think that of 7.5.3 — it worked, sure, but it could be painfully slow. System 6 was preferable as an OS — MultiFinder was better than 7, at least in the first couple iterations — but much of the software I needed demanded 7. 7.6.x was the first bright spot since 7.1 fixed much of what went wrong in 7.0, & there was a ton of waiting after that. 9 just chugged along for me, for the most part, which was nice.

Loved Snow Leopard too, & was shocked by how bad Lion was in comparison. Glad they got back on track after that.

System 7 was better for me due to AppleTalk file sharing. System 6 was confined to LocalTalk or printer sharing.

You were right I forgot about 7.6.1. I think I had a an WiredInc mpeg video card server based on System 7.5.3 for a project. So it had a particular memory burn. I suppose I need up using System 9 since all life forms were supported by carbon.

> System 7.5.3 and Snow Leopard 10.6.8 are in my opinion the high water mark for both OS’s.

Wasn’t 7.5.3 the worst of the string of terrible releases between 7.5 and 7.6? In my memory 7.5.5 was much better, but I still preferred 8.1.