"Hard to come by" is a relative term. Betas (and in some cases Alphas) were traded heavily back then. I remember very well the discussions of the 7.x beta codenames and people erasing their harddrives with some 7.6 (Harmony) beta. I also remember people calling a Puma (Mac OS X 10.0) RC build the "GM" a day or three too early and some people installing that on production machines only to find out later on they had to update all the machines again, because no one really knew what was different from one build to the release build. (Of course that was all discussion on "sharing" apps without anyone having a dev account. So I became a paying developer at some point, because I usually had 2-3 Macs around, and as soon as one of the desktops felt "pretty stable", I'd also put the betas on the PowerBook.
"Hard to come by" is a relative term. Betas (and in some cases Alphas) were traded heavily back then. I remember very well the discussions of the 7.x beta codenames and people erasing their harddrives with some 7.6 (Harmony) beta. I also remember people calling a Puma (Mac OS X 10.0) RC build the "GM" a day or three too early and some people installing that on production machines only to find out later on they had to update all the machines again, because no one really knew what was different from one build to the release build. (Of course that was all discussion on "sharing" apps without anyone having a dev account. So I became a paying developer at some point, because I usually had 2-3 Macs around, and as soon as one of the desktops felt "pretty stable", I'd also put the betas on the PowerBook.
All the old macs! Where is Captain Planet? Captain Mac?
The constant clicking or tapping from either one of you made this unwatchable. Pity as the subject matter seemed really interesting.