I know it may sound strange in this day and age, but I use My 512k with MacWrite to write text. Save to the floppy, put it on another Mac, like my Quadra 605 and save to a PM 8100 that I use as a file server on my home network.
Why? Just for the pleasure of still use a computer made in 1984 (plus the Keyboard of a 512k is a real piece of work!) I also do my home accounting on one of my Colour Classics (the best computer ever) on Excel 4.0. I actually wrote my Theology essays and other texts in the 512k and also on the Colour Classic (on Word 5.1a). Also, If you want to do some serious bible studies, I'm yet to find a better program than the Online Bible for the Macintosh on System 7.x, that I run on my Colour Classic. Awesome! At the end of my essays I write "Typed on a Macintosh Colour Classic" It is really great to be able to use 26-year-old Macintoshes to do real work. I have enough spare parts to keep mine going for a long time. Keep them healthy! You will find that the fun of using the old Macintoshes is worth it. And, it is not really that inconvenient, I even did the graphics inside Word 5.1a for my recent essay. It is not as easy as with the modern day Macs, of course, but it pays off in personal satisfaction. Enjoy it!! Marcio Pocciotti On Jan 24, 11:41 pm, Scott Holder <[email protected]> wrote: > Possum Stu wrote: > > I've been a Mac user continuously since I bought a Mac 512ke in 1986. > > I currently own a Mac Plus and want to bring it to work as a > > decoration/conversation piece. Plus I think it'd be cool to have a > > computer on my desk that is older than several of our employees. > > > But I don't just want it to just sit there; I'd like it to station it > > unattended in the corner and have it DO something other than run the > > "Pyro" screen saver. One limitation: it'd have to run off the boot up > > floppy. > > > I'd appreciate any ideas. Thanks in advance. > > The floppy limitation may end up being the biggest problem. Even a very > small HD can make a huge difference in modern usability of a Plus, and > would likely be required to get it booting with network drivers and > MacTCP for any internetting. A second floppy drive would be a huge help too. > > From floppy, your main use for it would be vintage games. Dark Castle, > Captain Blood, PT109... there are tons of great games that were made for > compact Macs. Most/all of them will run fine on System 6 as well. Beyond > that, various world processors and other productivity apps would run > just fine. Since this would be at work it sounds like, games might be > out but you could get a suite of very early (or first) versions of Word, > Multiplan/Excel, etc going just to show how far we've come. Or not come, > as it were, since they're remarkably familiar ;) > > The ultimate though would be to get a SCSI->Ethernet adapter and hook it > up to the network/internet. This would open up a lot of interesting > possibilities including Email, telnet, some chat clients, and some (very > limited) web browsing. There's a post-only twitter client if you're into > such things. > > With a serial cable you could hook it up as a terminal to a UNIX/Linux > box as well, though that'd typically require some proximity to the thing. > > If you do get it networked, you could run MacHTTP and run it as a web > server, throw some simple pages on it (though many corporate IT types > may not be too enthused with that ;) ). Maybe some team stats or > something if it's applicable to your workgroup. > > Pretty much all of these, except some of the games, are assuming you > have a 4 meg Plus. If you have less, getting it up to 4 would help a lot > with the fancier applications. > > Scott -- ----- You received this message because you are a member of the Vintage Macs group. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To leave this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs Support for older Macs: http://lowendmac.com/services/
