Right. I know that I can do all these things, because I did them all 
on similar machines years ago. My question is somewhat different. Are 
there any *new and unusual* uses for these, things that recognize 
that email, word processing and browsing is better done on the modern 
machines I (and most macophiles usually) have?

Best, Ted

>Is it useful? Depends on what you want to do with it. I'm setting them up
>for students, f'rinstance, with WordPerfect... works nicely. A friend of
>mine uses the one he has as his main machine pretty much every day. It's
>somewhat slow on web browsing (but he's using IE 4,) works for email, and
>he's got some specific programs he uses with it for his hobby...
>
>You can, of course, track down Word 6, Excel 4 or 5, etc. for it as well.
>Pop in the full 68040 for the math coprocessor and put in Quark XPress 3,
>Photoshop 3, Illustrator 6...
>
>There's still a lot that can be done with the system. *shrug* If worst
>comes to worst, use it as an email system. <g>
>
>  >What do people use these things for if you already have machines for
>>real work? I was thinking of a backup server, but I can see no
>>benefit from offloading that from my main machine. And because no
>>ethernet or scsi this machine is disqualified. One thing I really
>>miss from the old days was my YoYo caller ID device. That alone is
>>what I am thinking will motivate this project: a standalone, high
>  >class caller management center.

-- 
Ted Goranson
Advanced Enterprise Research Office

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