Re: "Macs just WORK" - Indeed they don't, or not for long

[SteveS <sgshiya@redshift.com>]

Well, for me writing using Word Perfect was based on their patent claim: 
"From keyboard to the screen, word perfect."  THEN!  They included a 
conversion table!  So my WP 8 has a conversion to almost any program, from 
almost any program.

my 2 cents

Steve
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Judy Seigel" <jseigel@panix.com>
To: <alt-photo-process-l@usask.ca>
Sent: Sunday, February 11, 2007 10:13 PM
Subject: Re: "Macs just WORK" - Indeed they don't, or not for long


> On Mon, 12 Feb 2007, Ender100@aol.com wrote:
>
> > pssssst psssst hey bob.... I have been using Microsoft Word on the Mac 
> > for
> > YEARS...... haven't you heard?   There is a Mac version! hehehehehe
> Oh yeah, Word 5.1 was the perfect program, but they have to sell upgrades 
> every year... 6.5 was the program from hell, & I peeled off.  I kept 5.1 
> on a partition, but it got too tricky... my G-4 spooked the partitions... 
> But then I discovered that the word processor in Pagemaker worked like a 
> charm... all the functions of word 5.1 plus page layout when you wanted 
> it.  HOWEVER, because the world is full of the brain dead, Pagemaker got 
> swamped by Quark, & when I need to send a file to a printer or resurrect 
> an old file to reprint an early Post-Factory -- Pagemaker & its fonts are 
> declared OBSOLETE. I have to make PDFs for the printer... but the moment I 
> turn my back, G-4 uninstalls all my fonts, so making the *&^%$#$%^&*(+@* 
> PDFs is hell.
>
> Partly it's payback for keeping system 9 in a partition --what the 
> brainiacs at Apple call "classic," but which was I'd bet never out of 
> beta, just a ploy to get us to "upgrade" and take X. People say they like 
> X better, I won't torture you with its shortcomings.... except to say I 
> have $10,000 worth of peripherals that won't work on 10 & don't like the 
> substitute hardware or programs at any price.  But I've said this before.
>
> As for "stable" -- I had several months of crash-a-minute until the 
> trouble was traced to a dying keyboard. Did I mention that no keyboards 
> are made that do 9 any more? Apple said "try E-Bay."  I got one that a 
> kind techy explained would do both 9 & 10 except it won't open the disk 
> drawer (did I mention planned obsolescence, the s--ts?). I have a "secret" 
> way of opening the CD drawer.... but then the mouse died, and no mice do 9 
> AND 10 any more, except the NYU computer store had misfit that will (also, 
> BTW, Microsoft)... as long as it lasts. (Maybe I should get a spare ?)
>
> Which is to say, I prefer to choose my programs, not have them shoved down 
> my throat. That's not in their plan.
>
> Judy