Remembering the classic Mac OS

I still use a beige G3 All In One as my backup machine here at home. I've removed the internal floppy drive and replaced it with a 120GB hard drive and put the machine on my home network, where it stores backups of my iMac's home folder. Sometimes when I'm playing on that machine, I get nostalgic for the things I miss about the classic Mac OS.

One of the first things I did on any classic OS Mac I was working on was to put an alias of both the hard drive and the Applications folder in the Apple Menu (with a space as the first character of thier names, so they'd always be at the top of the list). Navigating these is still snappier than similar aliases in my dock on my G4 iMac. More nostalgia after the jump.

 
One little utility I installed on every older Mac was the great WappPro. Utterly indispensable. Finally, I really miss the snap and clack of my good old Extended Keyboard II, Apple's best keyboard in my humble opinion. You knew you were typing on that biege beauty!

What don't I miss about the classic OS? Extention conflict hell, "The application Finder has unexpectedly quit...", manual memory allocation...ok, this list could get long pretty quickly.  So, anything you miss about the classic Mac OS, or are you just as happy to say goodbye to that old friend?

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