Those are great, clear reasons! Thank you, I am going to save your email for future reference!
Chuck On 10/21/04 10:28 PM, "Melvyn & Edith Halbert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > have a 6100 (actually a Performa 6115CD) running very well with a total > of 264 MB of RAM (the original soldered-in 8 MB plus two 128 MB modules > that I installed well over a year ago. So you shouldn't have any doubt > that it's possible to use 128 MB RAM cards. > > This 6100 has also been souped up with a 300-MHz G3 accelerator card (one > made by Newer Technologies that I bought just about the time they went out > of business the first time). This card really make this old machine quite > useful for most purposes, including web browsing with high-speed Internet > service (i.e., cable). > > Finally, I continue to use OS 7.6.1 with this machine. It's faster than OS > 8 or 9 and has some conveniences that Apple abandoned when it brought out 8 > and 9. About 6 months ago I wrote a little dissertation on this, which is > reproduced below the dotted line for those who are interested. > > Melvyn Halbert > > ................................. > Why I like OS 7.6.1 better than OS 8 or 9: > > 1. Computer graphics are executed much faster under OS 7.6.1 than under any > later OS. To be specific, when I start a Power Mac in any version of OS 8, > the test program called Let1kWindows Bloom takes 1.75 times longer to > execute than if I boot up in OS 7.6.1. Under OS 9.1, there is a slight > improvement in speed, but the test still takes about 1.5 or 1.6 times > longer to execute under OS 9.1 than under OS 7.6.1. > > 2. The 7.6.1 Finder suits me better than later ones. Here are three reasons: > > 2.1). Transfer of a group of selected items from one window to another > is much easier in OS 7.6.1 because the highlighting of selected items is > retained when the destination window is brought to the front by a mouse > click at the top, right side, or bottom. This does not work in any later > OS. > > 2.2). An OS 7.6.1 window in list mode does not scroll vertically as I > move items from another window into the top or bottom folder of the > destination window. Under OS 8 or 9.1, the list scrolls while I am trying > to drop the items into the top or bottom folder of the list and they often > get placed into the wrong destination. I am therefore obliged to be very > finicky under OS 8 or 9.1, which means those OSs are annoying to use. > > 2.3). The default option in OS 8 or 9 is to open folders after a short > dwell on the icon. This is something a lot of people love, allowing them > to drill down to inner folders without moving the mouse, but I always found > this behavior unnerving. So when I need to run OS 8 or 9 I turn this > option off. > > 3. When I give a command to OS 8 (any version), it makes no visible > response at first, making me think (on a slow computer) it didn't get the > command. I'm tempted to repeat the command, which can then screw things > up. OS 9, like OS 7, is much better at showing some immediate response to > a command. > > 4. Under OS 7.6.1, BBEdit Lite 3.5.1 (which I use a lot) has a feature that > is very useful to me. When saving an excerpt from a web page to a new > file, I can generate the name of the new file by dumping a long extract > from the text into the box that appears when I choose "Save As...", and > then edit the string in that same box down to the maximum of 31 characters. > Under later OSs (also later versions of BBEdit Lite), this cannot be done > because only the first 31 characters of the selected string are dumped into > the box. > > 5. I really dislike Sherlock 2 for finding a local file by name or date or > whatever; I much prefer the OS 7.6 Find File (available by the keystroke > Cmd-F). Fortunately, the OS 7.6.1 "Find File" can be made available > under OS 9.1 by Cmd-F -- provided that "Find File" and "Find File > Extension" have been copied from the 7.6.1 System Folder into the new > System Folder AND "Sherlock 2" is moved out of "Applications (Mac OS 9)". > > 6. True, some programs require OS 8.6 or later. At present there are only > four that I need to consider: TurboTax, Toast Titanium 5.1.3, Retrospect > Express 4.3, and software to run my USB scanner. However, I run OS 7.6.1 > on a Performa 6115CD, which has no FireWire or USB capabilities, so > TurboTax is the only one of these four I need to worry about. Just for > such eventualities, I can boot up under an OS 9.1 partition that I keep on > an external hard drive. -- 1st-PowerMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... 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