Heh, I still have an old road apple- Performa 6300 in basement that maxes out at os9.2. My G3 stopped doing anything a few months ago. My guess is a power supply but I haven't been motivated enough to find one. I haven't fired up the Mac Plus in ages but it worked the last time I tried. IMS the plus maxed out at system 7, I think I pitched the original 128K mother board and back of the case when we moved about 10 years ago.
I still say Apple willingness to leave older hard ware in the wake makes them more flexible than M$ who still try to service a twenty year old PC with the same software that is expected to run on a Quad Core. Perhaps if M$ were smarter they would set up virtual machines in a new vista installation to mimic older OS when needed instead of a one size fits all OS. On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 6:27 AM, Snyder, Mark (IT CIV) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just migrated my parents (late 70's, early 80's) from their 10-year > old, first edition iMac to the latest model iMac. Yes, they are > learning OS X 10.5 after using OS 8.6. That said, I told them not to > buy any software, but to download Firefox and OpenOffice. The free, > open-source software is reliable and will handle all of their modest > needs. They paid less for their 20-inch LCD iMac than they paid for the > original iMac. They are through with Microsoft Office, through with > buying any software. Their requirements are light, but I bet most > people don't have much in the way of software requirements for simple > home use. They used that old computer for ten years until it died - > dead power supply, and I told them it was time to replace it. (Business > would be another analysis.) > > It is time for Apple to pay attention to compatibility again, though. > My four year old Power Mac dual-G5 will run 10.5, but probably not 10.6, > which will likely be Intel-only. > > Thank you, > > Mark Snyder > -----Original Message----- >>To me, it looks like the game is played: Buy MS OS--whatever the > latest >>version. Use all MS products on it (browsers, email programs, >>Office). Repeat about every 3 years. My son is pushing me to buy a >>Mac. Is the situation the same with them? I see no reason to switch > to a >>more expensive system if I have to keep replacing them too. > > The old Apple was very long-term stable and I often supported clients > that were running a range of Mac OSs that spanned 10 or more years. Old > software ran fine on new machines and new OSs. > > Recently that has not been the case. Apple's transition to OS X forced > changes at a much faster pace than Mac users were used to. Over about 6 > years the old systems became hard to integrate with newer systems. > > Before we could catch a breath Apple changed processors. Now we have a > situation where the old software won't even run on the new hardware. > Apple is pushing us through this transition at an even faster pace than > the OS X transition. > > Will things slow down now? Or will Apple decide that this rapid pace is > better for them? > > > ************************************************************************* > ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** > ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** > ************************************************************************* > -- John Duncan Yoyo -------------------------------o) ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
