7 Dec
2011
7 Dec
'11
8:03 a.m.
On Dec 7, 2011, at 10:24 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. :-)
I have the SE, which also makes a lovely machine (also a nice serial terminal using ZTerm;
I keep meaning to fix up MacSSH now that I have the code, but again, spare time...). I
also have several LCs, but the SE takes up a lot less space.
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.
Well, and that's the thing; I can convert files I *receive* with no problem. It's
sending documents to other people; people with Office 2010 aren't interested in
"well, this came from an old version of Word on the Mac, so can't you just
install the plugin?".
Which is why I generally use TeX for documents other people don't need to edit and the
loathsome Office 2008 for Mac (why would they remove the picture editing capabilities and
leave it in the Windows version? We use those a lot at work) or 2010 for Windows
otherwise.
- Dave