7 Dec
2011
7 Dec
'11
7:24 a.m.
On 7 December 2011 14:50, David Riley <fraveydank at gmail.com> wrote:
On Dec 7, 2011, at 9:26 AM, Liam Proven wrote:
Me too, & I keep meaning to fix my Classic II, which was a lovely
little distraction-free writing machine. I am also tempted to fix up a
Beige G3 and run 9.2.2 on it - Word 5.1 runs fine on that, IIRC. I
have an old Apple portrait monitor that works on the far-newer Beige
G3s, as well. :-)
File interchange? I am fairly sure that Word for Windows includes a
Word for Mac import filter - the gotcha is that it's an optional
install. It's not there by default. But add it in and it works, IIRC.
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On 7 December 2011 14:00, David Riley
<fraveydank at gmail.com> wrote:
Oh, I have plenty of perfectly functional classic Macs, too (and if you run Netatalk on a
server, you can talk to everything from a brand-new machine all the way down to an SE with
an Ethernet card). ?The real reason I haven't used it since long before 68k emulation
bit the dust is because file interchange is a huge pain. ?I remember hearing something
about a 5.1 plugin to save/read Word 97+ files, though...
Man, I wish I could still run Word 5.1 for Mac on modern machines. ?It's easily the
best version they ever made, and possibly the best word processor for the Mac.
Totally agree.
The closest you'll get, if you like the late-era MacOS experience, is
9.04 running under SheepShaver.
If you want the classic Classic, you could run 6.0.8 under Basilisk or
vMac or the like. My copy of Word 5.1 runs happily under both - but
host integration is fairly poor.