28 May
2003
28 May
'03
6:26 p.m.
I agree about the software being important. I scrounge
EBAY and swaplists
for complete software packages for my pc's, 68k macs, amiga's etc. this
ranges from OS, productivity, to games. Turning on an old mac with no
software to play with isn't allot of fun. My collection is from the late
One thing I like about Mac's is that if you take a 10 year old Mac, and load it with
software of the same age, and it can do basically anything the average user needs, with
the exception of surfing (what can I say, I don't like browsing on slow systems).
80's to mid 90's mostly. Recently I purchased a
complete set of Desqview/x
V1 and 2 to mess around with on the pc's I have (too expensive when new to
buy).
I remember seeing Desqview/X at trade shows. It was totally cool, and I really wanted a
copy at the time. Now I've got a copy, I just haven't had time to setup a system
to play with it.
mass produced basic tools they are today. I don't
think I have seen a real
copy of A/UX 2 or 3 around in years which is basically what OSX is for the
mac today but a decade older (macos on top of Unix).
My first introduction to Unix in January of '92 was A/UX (about a week later I started
playing with Linux), trust me, OS X is a far better implementation! We used the C2
version of A/UX, and the system was painful to use (all we really used were Word Perfect
1.0 and MacDraw. Finally someone figured out how to get System 7 installed, and the
system suddenly screamed!
Speaking of *old* software, I bought my first Mac in '95 (largely due to the
previously mentioned system). Several apps that I got at that time I'm still running,
though now I have to run them under classic mode. Thankfully the app I bought my first
Mac to run, ClarisDraw (formally called MacDraw), still runs under Classic, as sadly a new
version hasn't been released since I bought it :^(
Zane
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