What was Classic MacOS like?

Nicked from a Lobsters post...Classic MacOS was for many of us the real MacOS. OS X is NeXTstep given a facelift to look a bit like a Mac, but it's Unix, and you can tell. It's a pretty Unix but it's an order of magnitude more complicated than classic MacOS and it is littered with ugly little "tells" like config in text files, file extensions, and weird stuff that doesn't "stick" when you set it, or things that the computer puts where it wants and not where you want. It is my favourite daily driver OS today. I am typing on an Intel iMac. But it's not really a Mac. Classic MacOS was not very reliable, not very stable, but it was beautiful. No shell, at all, anywhere. No config files. Nothing kept in text. Beautiful and clever and thoughtful GUI idioms for things that needed physical buttons to be pressed on other computers. To eject a disk, drag its icon to the wastebin and the motorised drive spit it out. Other computers needed you to do the work: press a button and you felt little…