On 12 September Scott at HobbyLink Japan wrote: >The only reasons for sticking with OS 9 or earlier at this point are >inertia, psychological resistance to change, or unwillingness to invest >even a modest sum of money .... > >[SNIP] > >What's that? You're still using an old Mac that won't even run OS X? >Er, um...no comment.
Yes - I must confess that I am (tho' my wife's machine will run OS X and my son has just donated a PowerBook which would run OS X if I maxed out its memory potential). The investment in a 'modern' machine is far from 'modest' when (1) you live in Europe and (2) you factor in the cost of replacing peripherals (mine are practically all either serial- or SCSI- conected). I agree that my computer is my most important tool but it ain't broke nor does it freeze once/day. And what I do is mainly writing for which the rate-determining step is my own brain (and use WordPerfect for this tho' it was EOLed a long time ago). In these circumstances I had no need to switch to PM from Emailer (another fine EOLed programme). I did so because _one day_ I shall spring for OS X capable kit and I'm preparing myself gently for that day. I hope that PM will still be developed for OS 9 but that must be a commercial decision for CTM to take. I make comments here on PM in the hope that they will be of use whatever system(s) PM is developed for. -- Charles
