10 Jan
2006
10 Jan
'06
9:20 p.m.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Zane H. Healy" <healyzh at aracnet.com>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
<cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2006 11:02 PM
Subject: Re: Not OT: Classic apps and the Intel Mac
Well you can still use the older apps on older equipment. My only flatbed
scanner is an old Umax 1200S and it is connected to my Quadra 950 Mac
(68040 at 50Mhz with 128K Cache upgraded, 160MB RAM, 4.55GB OS 8.1 Drive, 4 x
9GB UWSCSI drives for storage, etc) and I use it for scanning along with
Photoshop 3.0, works just fine. Unless you use a program as a tool for work
and the new features save you time (and money) I don't see the need to
continually upgrade the same software packages (unless you have a platform
change or there is a major shift in that area).
At 10:32 PM -0500 1/10/06, Teo Zenios wrote:
>I have a shelf full of boxed 68k/early PPC software in my collection,
funny
how cheap this
stuff has become lately.
Sometimes such stuff can be quite useful. I'm now running Adobe CS
Premium on my Mac thanks to a new copy of Photoshop 2.5 I picked up
years ago for something like $5-15. First I upgraded to V4, then
V5.5, V7, and finally Adobe CS Premium. Of course it also helps to
know what various companies upgrade policies are. Lately Filemaker
Pro seems to think you need to upgrade *every* version to be able to
keep upgrading (Connectix was about about this with VPC).
Zane
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