I've been using Google Docs here for my masters program to collaborate
with group members on a paper. It's pretty nice and keeps track of who
did what and when, allowing you to roll back at any point in time. My
only complaint is the formatting is a bit flaky. Also has the ability
to upload docs via a special cryptic email address assigned to your
account.

On 12/5/06, Jon Drews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> FWIW, I was able to easily run Googles spreadsheet here on an old IBM
> 600E Thinkpad using FreeBSD 4.11 and a lightweight window manager.
> Here are the specs:
>         The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
> FreeBSD 4.11-RELEASE-p11 #0: Sun Jul 10 16:54:47 EDT 2005
>     [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/STABLE411
> Timecounter "i8254"  frequency 1193182 Hz
> CPU: Pentium II/Pentium II Xeon/Celeron (363.96-MHz 686-class CPU)
>   Origin = "GenuineIntel"  Id = 0x66a  Stepping = 10
>
> real memory  = 167575552 (163648K bytes)
>
> I am using Mozilla 1.7.12.  My connection is a 256 kB PPPoA modem. The
> spreadsheet is reasonably responsive.
>
>  Robert and others, this may be an encouragement for you to use this
> on the ByteWorks computers. NOTE: Google imposes a 500 kB upload limit
> on the documents. That may be somewhat restrictive. Still this is a
> pretty nice service.
>
> --
> Kind regards,
> Jonathan
>
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