I was using (HB) Music Engraver on Mac SE when I saw the ad for Finale 1. The price was $1.000! I had to save up and got Finale 2.0.6 and have had nearly all upgrades since. Oldest file now on my computer is Finale 3.0.1r11. Opens fine in Finale 2014d.
Cortez > On 13. júl. 2016, at 17:30, Robert Patterson <[email protected]> > wrote: > > I started with Finale 1.0, preordering it before it was actually available. > Don't ask me how much it cost. >>shudder<< (You other 1.0 users know > exactly how much!) > > Before that I was using Deluxe Music Construction Set and ProCo. > > For the twentieth anniversary (F09 I believe), MM released a standalone app > that runs Finale 1.0 inside a Mac 512 virtual machine. Last time I checked > you could still download it. How far we've come! > > (I can still run my Mac OS 9 versions of Finale in Sheepshaver running on > 10.11. Haha) > > > > On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 11:49 AM, Ryan <[email protected]> wrote: > >> MusicPrinter Plus! Wow, I haven't thought about that in a long time. I used >> that all the way up until 1996! >> >> On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 9:47 AM, Williams, Jim < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Same as Dennis here--around 1989, quit MusicPrinter plus and got Finale >>> 2.x for my 386 computer . Strayed a couple of times along the way and now >>> 80% Finale, 20% Sibelius. >>> >>> Sent from my iPhone, so please pardon all the typos. >>> >>>> On Jul 13, 2016, at 12:39 PM, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz < >>> [email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>>> On Wed, July 13, 2016 12:35 pm, Chuck Israels wrote: >>>>> Don’t know if there are others here with the same history, but I have >>> used >>>>> Finale since v.1.0. Nevertheless, there are a number of others whose >>>>> knowledge of the program runs considerably deeper than mine, including >>> the >>>>> always reliable Christopher Smith. >>>> >>>> Indeed! I didn't start with version 1 because there was no Windows >>> version >>>> until version 2. >>>> >>>> Dennis >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Finale mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale >>>> >>>> To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: >>>> [email protected] >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Finale mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale >>> >>> To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: >>> [email protected] >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> Finale mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale >> >> To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: >> [email protected] >> > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > > To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: > [email protected] _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: [email protected]
