18 Sep
2009
18 Sep
'09
10:40 a.m.
On 16 Sep 2009, at 18:00, cctalk-request at classiccmp.org wrote:
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Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2009 07:16:48 -0700
From: "Zane H. Healy" <healyzh at aracnet.com>
Subject: Classic Mac (was: Amiga video to component video or VGA?)
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At 10:56 PM -0700 9/15/09, Cameron Kaiser wrote:
I still use one every day, only problem is the 'E' key keeps double
typing, maybe I should clean it or like you, try to find an NOS one,
needs to be a UK model though.
Classic Mac collecting really is dirt cheap
except for the oddball
exotic
pieces (CC, TAM, TV). It's rewarding, too, what you can do with it;
there's a
lot of places blowing used and NOS stuff out by the cartload, and
much of
it is still really useful and practical for small servers, even a
backup
workstation.
How hard/expensive is it to get NOS Apple Extended II ADB keyboards?
While I can't afford to right now, I really should invest in a
couple, as well as a couple USB-to-ADB converters. Once I finally
switched to Mac OS X I gave up on the ADB II Mouse, but I suspect I'd
be lost without my keyboard. I paid $160 new for it in January of
'97, and it has lasted through my 8500/180, G4/450, and is now on my
G5 2x2 (I hope to get a Mac Pro soon). Amazingly the letters are
intact, but the spacebar has groves worn in it.
Once I switch to the Mac Pro I'll have to decide if I setup a Classic
Mac to run a couple apps (there is no replacement for me for
ClarisDraw aka MacDraw), or if I run them under an emulator). I've
stayed at 10.4.11 so I can continue to run Classic.
What do you need in MacDraw that is not in MacDraft or MacDraft PE
(personal edition) ? I must declare an interest here as I maintain
MacDraft and am a shareholder of the company which bought the source
code of MacDraft from IDD about 15 years ago.
Roger Holmes.
Technical Director, Microspot Ltd.
Zane