**Exploring the Macintosh 2ci with System 7.5**

As I booted up my Macintosh 2ci, I was greeted by a familiar interface that seemed to have been plucked straight from the past. The system is based on System 7.5, which was released in 1994, and it shows. The first thing I noticed was how the window management works. Unlike modern Macs, where you can easily resize windows or use the Space Bar to switch between them, the Macintosh 2ci requires a bit more effort.

To move between applications, I had to use the menu bar at the top of the screen. Switching between Chooser and Jigsaw Puzzle was as simple as clicking on the application icon in the dock and selecting "Show" or hiding other applications by using the "Hide Others" option from the menu. This may seem clunky by today's standards, but it's an interesting relic of a bygone era.

One feature that caught my eye was the ability to use opaque graphics with wireframe movement. The Jigsaw Puzzle application showcased this feature beautifully, allowing me to interact with the puzzle pieces in a way that felt almost tangible. The puzzle loading animation was also a nice touch, which added to the overall sense of immersion.

The Scrapbook application was another area I wanted to explore. As an image library or sound effects library, it seemed like a great tool for organizing and accessing files. However, I was having trouble figuring out how to add new items to it. I searched through various system directories, but couldn't find any clear instructions on how to do so. It's possible that this feature has been deprecated or is only accessible via some hidden menu option.

On the topic of adding new content, I did stumble upon a useful feature: the ability to set background colors and use sound effects. This was achieved by using the "Sounds" and "Backgrounds" options in the application preferences. It's surprising how much this can enhance the overall user experience.

As I continued to explore the Macintosh 2ci, I couldn't help but notice that the desktop patterns were a bit limited. There were only 64 available wallpapers on offer, which seemed a paltry number compared to the hundreds of options available on modern systems. However, some of the existing patterns did have a certain charm to them.

One wallpaper in particular caught my eye: a beautiful blue tile pattern with turquoise accents. I've used this color scheme before, and it always brings back fond memories of exploring the Mac's user interface. The system also included a range of other wallpapers, from nature scenes to circuit diagrams – all of which were rendered in stunning detail.

Despite its age, the Macintosh 2ci still has some tricks up its sleeve. For example, I discovered that you could use the "About" application to reveal information about the machine itself. This revealed a wealth of details about the hardware and software configuration, including the model number (LC 5200C10) and the date it was manufactured.

As I explored the Macintosh 2ci further, I couldn't help but feel a sense of nostalgia for this bygone era. The interface may be dated, but it still has a certain charm to it – a testament to Apple's innovative spirit in the mid-1990s. Whether you're a seasoned Mac enthusiast or just curious about how things used to work, exploring the Macintosh 2ci with System 7.5 is definitely worth the effort.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhello this is hron 101010 from computer clan on shooting clan.com and I've got a Macintosh 2ci for you yeah this model was um introduced in 1989 and discontinued in I believe 93 it lasted about four years this one I not exactly sure when this particular one was made but it has a 1994 hard drive in it so actually what we can do here is take a look at the inside because this one's really easy to open you just take the two tabs in the back here and then you flip the whole lid off so then you have the the internals here as you can see this is most likely the GPU because the video Port is on the back here and I have a um a converter running this you know I'm not exactly sure if that is a video Port it probably isn't I think the video port's actually right here so scratch what I said about that I'm not exactly sure it looks like that is a video Port though whatever this thing is full of ram all the slots are full hopefully I didn't just you know electronically discharge them so by touching them hopefully that didn't happen but anyway anyway uh the speaker is right here the apparently the soundboard is you know somewhat dead or something it's really really quiet even when I plugged in external speakers but they didn't really have volume knobs on them so I really couldn't amplify the volume but yeah it's pretty darn quiet yeah here's the hard drive it is a 3.5 in don't know exactly what it means by that I think it means the dis is and um 700 megabytes scuzzy this one was made in this is a 1984 hard drive like I said yeah okay all right yeah power supply all that good stuff so we can pop this back on and start it up there power buttons on the back and of course you can use the keyboard if you choose to do that so let's put this back on and um it does have a floppy disc Bay on the front the the firmware button and the restart button as well so yeah we're going to start this up and take a look at what we can do I mean it's running system 7.5 and when came out the original OS is 6.0.4 but we have 7.5 so we'll just go with that right now all right let's Boot It Up all right it is running through this display so we're going to start it up now and switch the source and it should pop up in about five seconds and there we are beautiful okay so this is the startup here yeah we have a connectic ram doubler and I think that doubles the ram you know just you know assuming what the name is you know Ram doubler just doubles the memory I guess and it's in black and white again I set it to color but I think yeah I don't know what set it to black and white again but I will set it back to color color for you because black and white can be a little boring and um it doesn't really make the boot sound it makes the death sound when you you know press the firmware button or whatever you call it on Startup it gets like sad Mac and it CHS the hex code and then it goes ding whatever and yeah so it plays the crash sound it's pretty quiet though but it does crash successfully so that's good so let's um you know the drill you know Apple menu you got to start there go to the control panels and it's under boom bo boom monitor there we go all right so we're going to tweak this a little bit set it to color and that's much better all right um yeah I did a normal shutdown on this thing but it's it's old it didn't even save the clock settings it didn't save the date either so yeah I got a little screwed up but that's okay we can deal with that so yeah I have a little Macintosh icon is my you know system disc icon got the trash right here got some crap in it and this computer computer was used as a sound editor apparently because um it has this program on here let me take a look at it it's called sound edit you know really creative name and uh it doesn't run I don't really understand that see I open it up like this and it says like I don't have enough memory so I I bet when they installed it on here and it didn't work they were just like oh okay let's not use this anymore so apparently this computer is too old to run this program all right so let's continue here a little bit we got everything here T I'm just kidding it doesn't have that many programs on it it just has the sound editor plus the default system stuff of course I love messing around with the calculator you know 5 / 0 equals infinity that's true ladies and gentlemen zero goes into five an infinite amount of times so that was a great lesson uh we have a CD audio player in here but we don't have a CD drive like I mentioned it's only a floppy disc computer so you can't do that sorry and um if you if you did have CDs hooked up to this you can use this thing called CDT remote and um apparently it works with like an audio player or something like yeah see let me just this is what it looks like and of course I can't use it because there is no disc drive and yeah now it's just closed on me because I don't have the proper Hardware or drivers for it and we have a jigsaw puzzle on here I mean this is pretty cool the pieces move around with opaque movement which is pretty pretty cool because usually it's um wireframe and as you can see like there's a little puzzle loading thing right there it's pretty clever and what I mean by wireframes in the old operating system when you drag the window around it just drags like the outline but when you move these pieces it actually does it with um opaque Graphics so when you move it it's not just a wireframe so yeah then you can put the puzzle together which I'm I'm not really so good at puzzles I never really done them on the computer before so yeah I absolutely suck at that but um yeah you can undo your pieces set background colors use sound effects we can have it automatically solve the puzzle apparently so let's do it yeah and then it'll automatically put the pieces in place that's pretty cool and um you can set your own backgrounds and all that good stuff too we can take a look at that um yeah if if you notice that's actually one of the pictures that comes in the Scrapbook that background color you know that sort of thing and um in the system dis there is in the application for scrapbook obviously and then there's this one thing called scrapbook file which I believe it is really the same thing I believe the Scrapbook application right here is just an alias to that and for those of you that don't know what the Scrapbook is it's basically like your image library or your sound effects library to using Word documents and stuff you can put pictures in here I have no idea how to add stuff though if anyone can tell me how to add stuff into here that'd be great also if anyone could tell me how to add stuff to the desktop patterns that would be nice because I was searching the system dis and I found the Scrapbook file and I'm like well maybe you can open this up and that's how you add your stuff to it but no it's just the application so I I don't know how to add stuff to scrapbook or the desktop patterns so if someone could show me that that'd be great but it does have 64 wallpapers on here by default and that one look pretty cool I like the circuit one I've used that one before what's this one really yeah the one I use is like this blue tile one this one it's like a turquoise color and I have the window color as turquoise as well closing closing it's taking a while to close this window all right there we go a little odd and uh let's let's open up some stuff here and I I'll show you some things here calculator come on right Chooser and the jigsa puzzle now of course it's an old Mac operating system and I'm not a big fan of the Old Mac operating system I still think it's marvelous though at the time not not anymore you know you really wouldn't want to use this considering that the finder can only open up like one folder per window so every time you open up a new folder it puts in a new window which can be kind of annoying so let's say we got these windows on top of each other and instead of moving them around which is annoying you know you just use this menu up here uh I think you know some of you guys might know this you know Mac Fanatics really and this is just how you switch between applications or you can use the command tab if you choose to as well which basically just is this which I can't do so we'll just continue so you can hide applications this like you can in the modern Mac operating system just hit hide and then the application will hide or you can show that application and if you just don't want to really switch between them like I want the jigsaw puzzle no I want to switch to the calculator you know I want to switch back to the Chooser you just use that menu but if you want to hide the other ones let's say you're just in the jigsaw puzzle you just hit hide others and all the other ones will hide and then you hit show all and then they'll all come back or you can quit them all just go to file quit you know file quit or you can press command q and uh file quit so yep it's pretty cool we'll just go to the about this Macintosh thing and this this is 7.5 copyright Apple computer incorporated 1983 to 19 1994 and so there you go there's the Macintosh Macintosh 2ci running system 7.5 hope you enjoyed\n"