![]() Monitor BitDepth (to adjust color settings).Media Bay (for owners of PowerBook G3s with dual docking bays).CDStrip (worked as a miniature audio CD player).By the time Mac OS 9 rolled around, these were the default Control Strip tiles Apple was shipping: With System 7, the Control Strip was fairly simple, but over time it grew. The entire strip could be collapsed or opened up with a hot key and could be moved fairly easily via the Control Strip Control Panel. The Control Strip took commonly-changed settings and made them more accessible by putting them on the screen at all times. (For you pedantic readers, yes, my screenshot is of 7.5.3., but as that’s the first version of the Mac’s system software to ship with the Control Strip enabled for all models of Mac.) In 1994, with the System 7.1-running PowerBook 500 series of notebooks and the Duo 280c, Apple introduced the Control Strip, which can be seen in the lower left of this screenshot: However, the history from the original Macintosh Control Panel to Maverick’s System Preferences isn’t a linear one. Today, System Preferences is a bloated mess compared to Susan Kare’s 1984 masterpiece: ![]() The original Macintosh shipped with a very simple control panel that allowed users to adjust their computer’s volume, mouse tracking speed and desktop background, among other things:
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