Re: "Macs just WORK" - Indeed they don't, or not for long
Oh wowowowowwww......... I had no idea what I was starting when I made the comment that macs just work. My own first computer was a Radio Shack running Basic. I think it had 4k of memory and I was SO excited when I upgraded it to 16K. :o) Well, for whatever it's worth, I promise to never mention Macs and PCs again. I was going to write that a bunch of times, like I was writing it on a blackboard for punishment, but it appears my PC is starting up its antivirus scan which sloooooows everthing down to a crawl for the next 10 minutes or so, so I'll just sign off... to quote Mark, "hehehehehe". Susan On 2/12/07, SteveS <sgshiya@redshift.com> wrote: 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 > > > > > -- Susan Daly Voss www.dalyvoss.com
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