Re: Some Mac NOSTALGIA
-- Ah, nostalgia! We started off with 512k Macs and Pagemaker 0.9. One of the achievements was running PageMaker 3 with just an internal and an external floppy drives -- no hard drive -- not recommended or even suggested as possible by the software maker (?Aldus at that time?). We also made our own fonts, including Serbocroat with many strange accented characters, for a particular client's job. David Noel 2009 Aug 30 === On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 6:43 PM, Roger Kortasrkor...@iinet.net.au wrote: Hi Guys Ready,Set,Go! X - 7.7.7 is still available its now sold as shareware and I believe quite good :) Roger On 28/08/2009, at 1:21 PM, Peter Bull wrote: My first Mac was a 512k RAM with two floppy drives (no hard disk) and a separate numeric keypad. it was black and white of course with the 9 inch screen. I bought it second hand from UWA for about $2300!!! We coupled it up to a little dot matrix printer (remember them!!) and used it in my printing business. I then started publishing a small magazine using Ready Set Go 3 software to do what was called Desktop Publishing. Laser printers had just come out and were priced at $11000 - that's right eleven thousand bucks. Too much, so I would go to Computerland in St Georges Tce and pay them $1 per page to print out the artwork. It worked very well. Next was a Mac Classic which had a 40Mb hard drive which I thought would never fill up (it did), then a LC475, one of the nicest looking Macs AND it had a colour screen!! I then bought a new QMS mono laser printer for about $2600 and did all the artwork for my printing clients, still using Ready Set Go. That was great software, small and fast, but was out-marketed by PageMaker which became InDesign. A second hand Power PC was next, then a jellybean iMac, then an eMac, and I am typing this on an Intel iMac with 4gigs of RAM , 24 inch monitor and a 320gig hard disk. I am now using InDesign CS4 which does a lot more of course than the 1980's software, but I don't think that things happen any quicker. Bigger, faster computers seem to get slowed down by bigger software. I can't help thinking that if Macs were much cheaper in the early days that Apple would have sold millions more, and Bill Gates would be just another Harvard dropout. And of course, the world would be a happier and friendlier place because people would be far less stressed than they are today due to the frustration and downright ugliness of PC's, Windows and MS Office (especially Word)!! Peter Bull pb...@bbnet.com.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Some Mac NOSTALGIA
I used Ready Set Go from about 1987 until the late 1990s. One of the greatest packages that I have used. Its format capabilities for nested indents, paragraph widths, copy and paste a style etc have not been repeated in the monsters that devoured it. Merv My first Mac was a 512k RAM with two floppy drives (no hard disk) and a separate numeric keypad. it was black and white of course with the 9 inch screen. I bought it second hand from UWA for about $2300!!! We coupled it up to a little dot matrix printer (remember them!!) and used it in my printing business. I then started publishing a small magazine using Ready Set Go 3 software to do what was called Desktop Publishing. Laser printers had just come out and were priced at $11000 - that's right eleven thousand bucks. Too much, so I would go to Computerland in St Georges Tce and pay them $1 per page to print out the artwork. It worked very well. Next was a Mac Classic which had a 40Mb hard drive which I thought would never fill up (it did), then a LC475, one of the nicest looking Macs AND it had a colour screen!! I then bought a new QMS mono laser printer for about $2600 and did all the artwork for my printing clients, still using Ready Set Go. That was great software, small and fast, but was out-marketed by PageMaker which became InDesign. A second hand Power PC was next, then a jellybean iMac, then an eMac, and I am typing this on an Intel iMac with 4gigs of RAM , 24 inch monitor and a 320gig hard disk. I am now using InDesign CS4 which does a lot more of course than the 1980's software, but I don't think that things happen any quicker. Bigger, faster computers seem to get slowed down by bigger software. I can't help thinking that if Macs were much cheaper in the early days that Apple would have sold millions more, and Bill Gates would be just another Harvard dropout. And of course, the world would be a happier and friendlier place because people would be far less stressed than they are today due to the frustration and downright ugliness of PC's, Windows and MS Office (especially Word)!! Peter Bull pb...@bbnet.com.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- Science teaches that we must see in order to believe, but we must also believe in order to see. -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Some Mac NOSTALGIA
Hi Guys Ready,Set,Go! X - 7.7.7 is still available its now sold as shareware and I believe quite good :) Roger On 28/08/2009, at 1:21 PM, Peter Bull wrote: My first Mac was a 512k RAM with two floppy drives (no hard disk) and a separate numeric keypad. it was black and white of course with the 9 inch screen. I bought it second hand from UWA for about $2300!!! We coupled it up to a little dot matrix printer (remember them!!) and used it in my printing business. I then started publishing a small magazine using Ready Set Go 3 software to do what was called Desktop Publishing. Laser printers had just come out and were priced at $11000 - that's right eleven thousand bucks. Too much, so I would go to Computerland in St Georges Tce and pay them $1 per page to print out the artwork. It worked very well. Next was a Mac Classic which had a 40Mb hard drive which I thought would never fill up (it did), then a LC475, one of the nicest looking Macs AND it had a colour screen!! I then bought a new QMS mono laser printer for about $2600 and did all the artwork for my printing clients, still using Ready Set Go. That was great software, small and fast, but was out-marketed by PageMaker which became InDesign. A second hand Power PC was next, then a jellybean iMac, then an eMac, and I am typing this on an Intel iMac with 4gigs of RAM , 24 inch monitor and a 320gig hard disk. I am now using InDesign CS4 which does a lot more of course than the 1980's software, but I don't think that things happen any quicker. Bigger, faster computers seem to get slowed down by bigger software. I can't help thinking that if Macs were much cheaper in the early days that Apple would have sold millions more, and Bill Gates would be just another Harvard dropout. And of course, the world would be a happier and friendlier place because people would be far less stressed than they are today due to the frustration and downright ugliness of PC's, Windows and MS Office (especially Word)!! Peter Bull pb...@bbnet.com.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Some Mac NOSTALGIA
Hi I downloaded a test version - won't print until I buy. The features that I spoke about are still there. Image import is excellent. But, it is a ppc program, not universal nor intel. However, according to a reference posted earlier, there are quite a number of universal applications including Adobe Photoshop Elements 6.0, that won't run on OSX10.6. I guess I won't be moving to Snow Leopard in a hurry. Cheers Merv Hi Guys Ready,Set,Go! X - 7.7.7 is still available its now sold as shareware and I believe quite good :) Roger On 28/08/2009, at 1:21 PM, Peter Bull wrote: My first Mac was a 512k RAM with two floppy drives (no hard disk) and a separate numeric keypad. it was black and white of course with the 9 inch screen. I bought it second hand from UWA for about $2300!!! We coupled it up to a little dot matrix printer (remember them!!) and used it in my printing business. I then started publishing a small magazine using Ready Set Go 3 software to do what was called Desktop Publishing. Laser printers had just come out and were priced at $11000 - that's right eleven thousand bucks. Too much, so I would go to Computerland in St Georges Tce and pay them $1 per page to print out the artwork. It worked very well. Next was a Mac Classic which had a 40Mb hard drive which I thought would never fill up (it did), then a LC475, one of the nicest looking Macs AND it had a colour screen!! I then bought a new QMS mono laser printer for about $2600 and did all the artwork for my printing clients, still using Ready Set Go. That was great software, small and fast, but was out-marketed by PageMaker which became InDesign. A second hand Power PC was next, then a jellybean iMac, then an eMac, and I am typing this on an Intel iMac with 4gigs of RAM , 24 inch monitor and a 320gig hard disk. I am now using InDesign CS4 which does a lot more of course than the 1980's software, but I don't think that things happen any quicker. Bigger, faster computers seem to get slowed down by bigger software. I can't help thinking that if Macs were much cheaper in the early days that Apple would have sold millions more, and Bill Gates would be just another Harvard dropout. And of course, the world would be a happier and friendlier place because people would be far less stressed than they are today due to the frustration and downright ugliness of PC's, Windows and MS Office (especially Word)!! Peter Bull pb...@bbnet.com.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- Science teaches that we must see in order to believe, but we must also believe in order to see. -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Some Mac NOSTALGIA
Forgot to say RSG 7.7.7 is backward compatible to RSG 4.5 which in turn is backward compatible to RSG 3.0. Merv At 11:32 AM +0800 29/8/09, Mervyn Giuliana Bond wrote: Hi I downloaded a test version - won't print until I buy. The features that I spoke about are still there. Image import is excellent. But, it is a ppc program, not universal nor intel. However, according to a reference posted earlier, there are quite a number of universal applications including Adobe Photoshop Elements 6.0, that won't run on OSX10.6. I guess I won't be moving to Snow Leopard in a hurry. Cheers Merv Hi Guys Ready,Set,Go! X - 7.7.7 is still available its now sold as shareware and I believe quite good :) Roger On 28/08/2009, at 1:21 PM, Peter Bull wrote: My first Mac was a 512k RAM with two floppy drives (no hard disk) and a separate numeric keypad. it was black and white of course with the 9 inch screen. I bought it second hand from UWA for about $2300!!! We coupled it up to a little dot matrix printer (remember them!!) and used it in my printing business. I then started publishing a small magazine using Ready Set Go 3 software to do what was called Desktop Publishing. Laser printers had just come out and were priced at $11000 - that's right eleven thousand bucks. Too much, so I would go to Computerland in St Georges Tce and pay them $1 per page to print out the artwork. It worked very well. Next was a Mac Classic which had a 40Mb hard drive which I thought would never fill up (it did), then a LC475, one of the nicest looking Macs AND it had a colour screen!! I then bought a new QMS mono laser printer for about $2600 and did all the artwork for my printing clients, still using Ready Set Go. That was great software, small and fast, but was out-marketed by PageMaker which became InDesign. A second hand Power PC was next, then a jellybean iMac, then an eMac, and I am typing this on an Intel iMac with 4gigs of RAM , 24 inch monitor and a 320gig hard disk. I am now using InDesign CS4 which does a lot more of course than the 1980's software, but I don't think that things happen any quicker. Bigger, faster computers seem to get slowed down by bigger software. I can't help thinking that if Macs were much cheaper in the early days that Apple would have sold millions more, and Bill Gates would be just another Harvard dropout. And of course, the world would be a happier and friendlier place because people would be far less stressed than they are today due to the frustration and downright ugliness of PC's, Windows and MS Office (especially Word)!! Peter Bull pb...@bbnet.com.au -- Science teaches that we must see in order to believe, but we must also believe in order to see. -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Some Mac nostalgia
In 1986 at Willetton SHS the Social Studies Department was loaned a 512 Mac by the SS Association. Most of the staff at Willetton went to the SS Office to take a look and I was hooked.Had to have one. We bought a secondhand 128k machine from Nigel Dolan at UWA for $2200. Loved it! Kevin -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Some Mac NOSTALGIA
First machine Apple 2 1987 first laptop Apple portable - or luggable with the wet celled battery and 3 mg Ram -then the 512 'I think black and white with one disk and a massive 40meg Hard drive and a really slow dot matrix printer. I drooled over the Se and then brought a colour classic. I miss mac Paint and hypercard but nothing else- except the donkey to carry the portable tom samson On 27/08/2009, at 7:02 AM, lynn...@westnet.com.au wrote: omg, hypercard, clarisworks (homepage to be exact)... oh why do we have to upgrade... had all my fun on my old macs my 1st mac was one of the last b/w ones, then i had one of the 1st thick, black brick chunk colour ones (oh, cant remember the models of those 2), but they were running os9 i think and it was bliss... :) --lynn-- - Original Message - From: Robert Howells rhowe...@arach.net.au To: wamug wamug@wamug.org.au Sent: Wednesday, 26 August, 2009 8:25:40 PM GMT +08:00 Perth Subject: Some Mac NOSTALGIA HI List , Just sharing a little experience with you .. Remember When We struggled with the older Mac's , Dial up Internet and frreezing screens when the latest Mac was something like a PPM 7600 with a whole 32 or 64 Mb of Ram the hard drive was 2 GB and you were lucky if you could burn a CD and the operating system got to be a magical OS9 on a 200 Mhz cpu ? REMEMBER SO now that you have that scene firmly fixed in your mind's eye FAST FORWARD and try to imagine the same OS9 working on :- Broadband RAM 1 GB Hard Drive 500 Gb CPU 1.8 Ghz on a G4 ??? Imagine ??? Yep ! It goes like a rocket ! Cheers Bob -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Some Mac NOSTALGIA
My first Mac was a 512k RAM with two floppy drives (no hard disk) and a separate numeric keypad. it was black and white of course with the 9 inch screen. I bought it second hand from UWA for about $2300!!! We coupled it up to a little dot matrix printer (remember them!!) and used it in my printing business. I then started publishing a small magazine using Ready Set Go 3 software to do what was called Desktop Publishing. Laser printers had just come out and were priced at $11000 - that's right eleven thousand bucks. Too much, so I would go to Computerland in St Georges Tce and pay them $1 per page to print out the artwork. It worked very well. Next was a Mac Classic which had a 40Mb hard drive which I thought would never fill up (it did), then a LC475, one of the nicest looking Macs AND it had a colour screen!! I then bought a new QMS mono laser printer for about $2600 and did all the artwork for my printing clients, still using Ready Set Go. That was great software, small and fast, but was out-marketed by PageMaker which became InDesign. A second hand Power PC was next, then a jellybean iMac, then an eMac, and I am typing this on an Intel iMac with 4gigs of RAM , 24 inch monitor and a 320gig hard disk. I am now using InDesign CS4 which does a lot more of course than the 1980's software, but I don't think that things happen any quicker. Bigger, faster computers seem to get slowed down by bigger software. I can't help thinking that if Macs were much cheaper in the early days that Apple would have sold millions more, and Bill Gates would be just another Harvard dropout. And of course, the world would be a happier and friendlier place because people would be far less stressed than they are today due to the frustration and downright ugliness of PC's, Windows and MS Office (especially Word)!! Peter Bull pb...@bbnet.com.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Some Mac NOSTALGIA
HI List , Just sharing a little experience with you .. Remember When We struggled with the older Mac's , Dial up Internet and frreezing screens when the latest Mac was something like a PPM 7600 with a whole 32 or 64 Mb of Ram the hard drive was 2 GB and you were lucky if you could burn a CD and the operating system got to be a magical OS9 on a 200 Mhz cpu ? REMEMBER SO now that you have that scene firmly fixed in your mind's eye FAST FORWARD and try to imagine the same OS9 working on :- Broadband RAM 1 GB Hard Drive 500 Gb CPU 1.8 Ghz on a G4 ??? Imagine ??? Yep ! It goes like a rocket ! Cheers Bob -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Some Mac NOSTALGIA
I miss playing with hypercard on my old performa 5200 :) -- Craig Bruce Director M 0403 040 088 P 08 9367 4691 F 08 9367 4692 E craig.br...@maxstyle.com.au W http://www.maxstyle.com.au Twitter Maxstyle_com_au Facebook http://www.facebook.com/maxstyle Disclaimer: The information transmitted on this message is intended only for the person or organisation to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. If you are not the intended recipient of this message, you are hereby notified that any use, dissemination, distribution, reproduction or any action taken in reliance of this message is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please contact MaxStyle Pty Ltd immediately. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender and may not necessarily reflect the views of the company. On 26/08/2009, at 8:25 PM, Robert Howells wrote: HI List , Just sharing a little experience with you .. Remember When We struggled with the older Mac's , Dial up Internet and frreezing screens when the latest Mac was something like a PPM 7600 with a whole 32 or 64 Mb of Ram the hard drive was 2 GB and you were lucky if you could burn a CD and the operating system got to be a magical OS9 on a 200 Mhz cpu ? REMEMBER SO now that you have that scene firmly fixed in your mind's eye FAST FORWARD and try to imagine the same OS9 working on :- Broadband RAM 1 GB Hard Drive 500 Gb CPU 1.8 Ghz on a G4 ??? Imagine ??? Yep ! It goes like a rocket ! Cheers Bob -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Some Mac NOSTALGIA
If only Bob. My first one was an SE or some such name. Megabytes were unheard of. Nothing to do with telephones, ethernet or anything else. The little beast just sat there on the desk but it was BLOODY sight easier to use than the DOS machine my neighbour had. But I had hypercard! And, I know someone who still uses OS8 because the music software is better. Sounds like a Monty Python sketch about licking t'road ...ey up Obadiah... Bill On 26/08/2009, at 8:25 PM, Robert Howells wrote: HI List , Just sharing a little experience with you .. Remember When We struggled with the older Mac's , Dial up Internet and frreezing screens when the latest Mac was something like a PPM 7600 with a whole 32 or 64 Mb of Ram the hard drive was 2 GB and you were lucky if you could burn a CD and the operating system got to be a magical OS9 on a 200 Mhz cpu ? REMEMBER SO now that you have that scene firmly fixed in your mind's eye FAST FORWARD and try to imagine the same OS9 working on :- Broadband RAM 1 GB Hard Drive 500 Gb CPU 1.8 Ghz on a G4 ??? Imagine ??? Yep ! It goes like a rocket ! Cheers Bob -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au Dr Bill Parker Editor RENEW EDITORS WRITERS Box 111 Wooroloo 6558 Western Australia 0403 583 676 -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Some Mac NOSTALGIA
Hmmm. And I started in 1987 (I think), programming with a Mac 512k with 2 400k floppy drives - no hard disk. The OS fitted on one floppy, the compiler fitted on another, and my program was on a third. Most of my time was spent swapping floppies. Nevertheless, the graphical user interface was a huge step up on the text based mainframes I was used to using. And then there are the multimedia and animation programs our team developed in the 1990s with Supercard. These absolutely fly now - too fast to be meaningful... And then I had to do some work on a Windows XP machine the other day. Mac OS4 or 5 (from 1987) was definitely more friendly! Back to my zimmer frame. Rob Robert Howells wrote: HI List , Just sharing a little experience with you .. Remember When We struggled with the older Mac's , Dial up Internet and frreezing screens when the latest Mac was something like a PPM 7600 with a whole 32 or 64 Mb of Ram the hard drive was 2 GB and you were lucky if you could burn a CD and the operating system got to be a magical OS9 on a 200 Mhz cpu ? REMEMBER SO now that you have that scene firmly fixed in your mind's eye FAST FORWARD and try to imagine the same OS9 working on :- Broadband RAM 1 GB Hard Drive 500 Gb CPU 1.8 Ghz on a G4 ??? Imagine ??? Yep ! It goes like a rocket ! Cheers Bob -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- Associate Professor Rob Phillips Educational Development Unit Room 4.42 Level 4 Library North Wing, Murdoch University r.phill...@murdoch.edu.au Phone: +61 8 9360 6054 Mobile: 0416 065 054 Fellow, Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia Currently on sabbatical leave -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Some Mac NOSTALGIA
Greetings! My first Mac was a IIVX 32MZ processor, 3 gig HD. I paid just under 2000 dollars US including an HP printer. Then I decided to upgrade the memory. I paid 200 dollars for 20 mega bites of ram.That's right, 20 mega bites of ram. We have come a long way since then. Cheers, Joe On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 9:34 PM, Bill Parker re...@westnet.com.au wrote: If only Bob. My first one was an SE or some such name.Megabytes were unheard of. Nothing to do with telephones, ethernet or anything else. The little beast just sat there on the desk but it was BLOODY sight easier to use than the DOS machine my neighbour had. But I had hypercard! And, I know someone who still uses OS8 because the music software is better. Sounds like a Monty Python sketch about licking t'road ...ey up Obadiah... Bill On 26/08/2009, at 8:25 PM, Robert Howells wrote: HI List , Just sharing a little experience with you .. Remember When We struggled with the older Mac's , Dial up Internet and frreezing screens when the latest Mac was something like a PPM 7600 with a whole 32 or 64 Mb of Ram the hard drive was 2 GB and you were lucky if you could burn a CD and the operating system got to be a magical OS9 on a 200 Mhz cpu ? REMEMBER SO now that you have that scene firmly fixed in your mind's eye FAST FORWARD and try to imagine the same OS9 working on :- Broadband RAM 1 GB Hard Drive 500 Gb CPU 1.8 Ghz on a G4 ??? Imagine ??? Yep ! It goes like a rocket ! Cheers Bob -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au Dr Bill Parker Editor RENEW EDITORS WRITERS Box 111 Wooroloo 6558 Western Australia 0403 583 676 -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Some Mac NOSTALGIA
omg, hypercard, clarisworks (homepage to be exact)... oh why do we have to upgrade... had all my fun on my old macs my 1st mac was one of the last b/w ones, then i had one of the 1st thick, black brick chunk colour ones (oh, cant remember the models of those 2), but they were running os9 i think and it was bliss... :) --lynn-- - Original Message - From: Robert Howells rhowe...@arach.net.au To: wamug wamug@wamug.org.au Sent: Wednesday, 26 August, 2009 8:25:40 PM GMT +08:00 Perth Subject: Some Mac NOSTALGIA HI List , Just sharing a little experience with you .. Remember When We struggled with the older Mac's , Dial up Internet and frreezing screens when the latest Mac was something like a PPM 7600 with a whole 32 or 64 Mb of Ram the hard drive was 2 GB and you were lucky if you could burn a CD and the operating system got to be a magical OS9 on a 200 Mhz cpu ? REMEMBER SO now that you have that scene firmly fixed in your mind's eye FAST FORWARD and try to imagine the same OS9 working on :- Broadband RAM 1 GB Hard Drive 500 Gb CPU 1.8 Ghz on a G4 ??? Imagine ??? Yep ! It goes like a rocket ! Cheers Bob -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Some Mac NOSTALGIA
I'm about to show my age here :) My first Apple was an Apple II+ Then: IIe IIGS Mac+ SE 6100 7200 BW G3 G4 G5 and now 3 macbook Pro's And does anyone remember the Apple Credit card? Roger On Thu Aug 27 7:02 , lynn...@westnet.com.au sent: omg, hypercard, clarisworks (homepage to be exact)... oh why do we have to upgrade... had all my fun on my old macs my 1st mac was one of the last b/w ones, then i had one of the 1st thick, black brick chunk colour ones (oh, cant remember the models of those 2), but they were running os9 i think and it was bliss... :) --lynn-- - Original Message - From: Robert Howells rhowe...@arach.net.au To: wamug wamug@wamug.org.au Sent: Wednesday, 26 August, 2009 8:25:40 PM GMT +08:00 Perth Subject: Some Mac NOSTALGIA HI List , Just sharing a little experience with you .. Remember When We struggled with the older Mac's , Dial up Internet and frreezing screens when the latest Mac was something like a PPM 7600 with a whole 32 or 64 Mb of Ram the hard drive was 2 GB and you were lucky if you could burn a CD and the operating system got to be a magical OS9 on a 200 Mhz cpu ? REMEMBER SO now that you have that scene firmly fixed in your mind's eye FAST FORWARD and try to imagine the same OS9 working on :- Broadband RAM 1 GB Hard Drive 500 Gb CPU 1.8 Ghz on a G4 ??? Imagine ??? Yep ! It goes like a rocket ! Cheers Bob -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au','','','')wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au','','','')wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au ) -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
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On 27/08/2009, at 7:11 AM, rkor...@iinet.net.au wrote: I'm about to show my age here :) My first Apple was an Apple II+ Mine was an Apple //c in 1984. We bought in preference to the brand new Mac at the time because it had a lot more educational software for it, and the RAM was the same in each (128Kb! - not Mb!!). I also remember buying a 1 Megabyte RAM Card for an Apple IIgs I was using several years later, paying around $700 dollars for it and being happy with that! This card was populated with a veritable forest of 16k chips. Of course, that was in the days when Bill Gates was confidently predicting that no personal computer would ever need more that 640K of RAM. Ahh, memories... -- Peter HinchliffeApwin Computer Services FileMaker Pro Solutions Developer Perth, Western Australia Phone (618) 9332 6482Mob 0403 064 948 Mac because I prefer it -- Windows because I have to. -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
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but can you imagine in 1979 apple II+ with 64k ram a great floppy drive with 150kbytes capacity dos 3.3 operating system then in 1984 the apple IIc with 128k ram floppy drives with 720k capacity, prodos 9 operating system there was appleworks allready well known and the first steps to a graphical interface/mouse appeared in the updates James SAD Technic Video Productions, Electronic repairs U3 / 6 Chalkley Pl Bayswater WA 6053 +618 9370 5307,+618 6262 5707, 0414 421 132 http://www.iinet.net.au/~saddas skype: barleeway over 40 years in electronics On 26/08/2009, at 22:53, Joe Mastrella wrote: Greetings! My first Mac was a IIVX 32MZ processor, 3 gig HD. I paid just under 2000 dollars US including an HP printer. Then I decided to upgrade the memory. I paid 200 dollars for 20 mega bites of ram.That's right, 20 mega bites of ram. We have come a long way since then. Cheers, Joe On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 9:34 PM, Bill Parker re...@westnet.com.au wrote: If only Bob. My first one was an SE or some such name. Megabytes were unheard of. Nothing to do with telephones, ethernet or anything else. The little beast just sat there on the desk but it was BLOODY sight easier to use than the DOS machine my neighbour had. But I had hypercard! And, I know someone who still uses OS8 because the music software is better. Sounds like a Monty Python sketch about licking t'road ...ey up Obadiah... Bill -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
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While we're all getting nostalgic, if anyone has a Mac Plus, Mac SE, or similar vintage Apple Mac sitting dormant under a coating of dust in their shed, I'd be more than happy (as a collector) to offer a good home and/or donation if required. Used to love our old Apple IIGS, so simple but (don't laugh) impressive at the time. Does anyone remember the popular PrintShop application and other older software by Broderbund? David. On 27/08/2009, at 11:21 AM, James / Hans Kunz wrote: but can you imagine in 1979 apple II+ with 64k ram a great floppy drive with 150kbytes capacity dos 3.3 operating system then in 1984 the apple IIc with 128k ram floppy drives with 720k capacity, prodos 9 operating system there was appleworks allready well known and the first steps to a graphical interface/mouse appeared in the updates James SAD Technic Video Productions, Electronic repairs U3 / 6 Chalkley Pl Bayswater WA 6053 +618 9370 5307,+618 6262 5707, 0414 421 132 http://www.iinet.net.au/~saddas skype: barleeway over 40 years in electronics On 26/08/2009, at 22:53, Joe Mastrella wrote: Greetings! My first Mac was a IIVX 32MZ processor, 3 gig HD. I paid just under 2000 dollars US including an HP printer. Then I decided to upgrade the memory. I paid 200 dollars for 20 mega bites of ram.That's right, 20 mega bites of ram. We have come a long way since then. Cheers, Joe On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 9:34 PM, Bill Parker re...@westnet.com.au wrote: If only Bob. My first one was an SE or some such name. Megabytes were unheard of. Nothing to do with telephones, ethernet or anything else. The little beast just sat there on the desk but it was BLOODY sight easier to use than the DOS machine my neighbour had. But I had hypercard! And, I know someone who still uses OS8 because the music software is better. Sounds like a Monty Python sketch about licking t'road ...ey up Obadiah... Bill -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
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The IIGS was a very nice machine excellent sound and graphics at the time :) I remember buying a CPM card for my Apple II + in 1979 and also a 128k ram card!!! Roger On Thu Aug 27 11:55 , David Peake dpe...@printforce.com.au sent: While we're all getting nostalgic, if anyone has a Mac Plus, Mac SE, or similar vintage Apple Mac sitting dormant under a coating of dust in their shed, I'd be more than happy (as a collector) to offer a good home and/or donation if required. Used to love our old Apple IIGS, so simple but (don't laugh) impressive at the time. Does anyone remember the popular PrintShop application and other older software by Broderbund? David. On 27/08/2009, at 11:21 AM, James / Hans Kunz wrote: but can you imagine in 1979apple II+ with 64k ram a great floppy drive with 150kbytes capacity dos 3.3 operating system then in 1984 the apple IIc with 128k ram floppy drives with 720k capacity, prodos 9 operating systemthere was appleworks allready well knownand the first steps to a graphical interface/mouse appeared in the updates James SAD TechnicVideo Productions, Electronic repairsU3 / 6 Chalkley PlBayswater WA 6053+618 9370 5307,+618 6262 5707, 0414 421 132http://www.iinet.net.au/~saddasskype: barleewayover 40 years in electronics On 26/08/2009, at 22:53, Joe Mastrella wrote:Greetings! My first Mac was a IIVX 32MZ processor, 3 gig HD. I paid just under 2000 dollars US including an HP printer. Then I decided to upgrade the memory. I paid 200 dollars for 20 mega bites of ram.That's right, 20 mega bites of ram. We have come a long way since then. Cheers, Joe On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 9:34 PM, Bill Parker re...@westnet.com.au wrote: If only Bob.   My first one was an SE  or some such name.   Megabytes were unheard of.  Nothing to do with telephones,  ethernet or anything else.   The little beast just sat there on the desk but it was BLOODY sight easier to use than the DOS  machine my neighbour had.  But I had hypercard! And,  I know someone who still uses OS8 because the music software  is better. Sounds like a Monty Python sketch about licking t'road  ...ey up Obadiah... Bill -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
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Yes, can remember the Apple II with its 5 1/4 inch floppies with affection. I was working at the Nowra (NSW) paper mills and implemented a mill shop floor data collection using about a dozen apple computers networked together using a Corvus network with a central disc drive. The network was 1 mb/sec and was an early form like Ethernet. All software was written by me in Apple DOS or 7502 assembler. The system was operational for about 5 years and served the mill well. Then replaced by the new boy on the market - IBM personal computers. Cheers ... Clyde On 27/08/2009, at 11:21 AM, James / Hans Kunz wrote: but can you imagine in 1979 apple II+ with 64k ram a great floppy drive with 150kbytes capacity dos 3.3 operating system then in 1984 the apple IIc with 128k ram floppy drives with 720k capacity, prodos 9 operating system there was appleworks allready well known and the first steps to a graphical interface/mouse appeared in the updates James SAD Technic Video Productions, Electronic repairs U3 / 6 Chalkley Pl Bayswater WA 6053 +618 9370 5307,+618 6262 5707, 0414 421 132 http://www.iinet.net.au/~saddas skype: barleeway over 40 years in electronics On 26/08/2009, at 22:53, Joe Mastrella wrote: Greetings! My first Mac was a IIVX 32MZ processor, 3 gig HD. I paid just under 2000 dollars US including an HP printer. Then I decided to upgrade the memory. I paid 200 dollars for 20 mega bites of ram.That's right, 20 mega bites of ram. We have come a long way since then. Cheers, Joe On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 9:34 PM, Bill Parker re...@westnet.com.au wrote: If only Bob. My first one was an SE or some such name. Megabytes were unheard of. Nothing to do with telephones, ethernet or anything else. The little beast just sat there on the desk but it was BLOODY sight easier to use than the DOS machine my neighbour had. But I had hypercard! And, I know someone who still uses OS8 because the music software is better. Sounds like a Monty Python sketch about licking t'road ...ey up Obadiah... Bill -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
