Back To 1993

[richmond62]

Running AppleWorks 6 on MacOS Sonoma just confirms my suspicions that contemporary Office packages (MicroSoft Office, LibreOffice, and so on) suffer from bloat:
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Drinking Wine Spo-Dee-O-Dee

https://www.macintoshrepository.org/144 ... or-windows

[richmond62]

This is also very useful indeed for opening Clarisworks documents from the early 90s in a way that does NOT muck them around the way Mac's 'Pages' seems to: and exporting them in some format that LibreOffice can cope with.

[richmond62]

It is also "fun" to run early (free-for-10-lines-of-code) Windows versions of RunRev.

[pugalug]

In 1993 I believe my computer was called an Apple IIc if I remember correctly. I had just started college.

[stam]

I had an overpriced LC II with a colour screen. In spite it hqving a massively underpowered 68030 processor I lost many many nights to that machine

[Zax]

I had an overpriced LC II with a colour screen.

I also had this cute pizza box but quickly ran out of room inside to add hard drives.
Then, I bought a used Mac Quadra: a big empty box with a huge speaker.

[stam]

I had an overpriced LC II with a colour screen.

I also had this cute pizza box but quickly ran out of room inside to add hard drives.
Then, I bought a used Mac Quadra: a big empty box with a huge speaker.

Yeah I finally got a Quadra a few years after the LC II - but it was the cut-price Quadra 450 (with built-in TV receiver and remote!). Still a hefty upgrade on the LC II. My LC II still works but the Quadra 450 has gone the way of the dodo...

[Zax]

I don't remember what happened to my LC. I think I sold it to buy one of the first G4, which I was very proud of

[stam]

Yeah I think my next one was a PowerBook G3 (the black 'Pizmo') - what a wonderfully tactile machine that was! That too still works but the batteries are dead and sadly not possible to find replacement (the batteries were curved because they slid into the side of the curved body and could be replaced on the fly - I still miss that!). The other problem is that the WiFi is so old, I couldn't get it to connect to a modern wifi. So I can run MacOS 9 on it, but has to be plugged in and with no internet connectivity. But I can't bring myself to part with it...

Apple's build quality seem to dwindle severely with the G4 laptops - I had a couple but they all died. The 17' laptops were great though. Went with me everywhere even though now seems incredibly heavy compared to modern laptops... Still alive and kicking but stuck on some ancient version of OSX. Between my wife and me we probably have 12-15 ancient Macs that still work.. Safe to say my man cave is a bit of a Mac graveyard

Sad reality is I will have to recycle these at some point...

[Zax]

Between my wife and me we probably have 12-15 ancient Macs that still work.. Safe to say my man cave is a bit of a Mac graveyard

Haha, excellent

After my G4 (tower), I only had laptops.
Currently, I have a very old aluminum one (with a dead battery) which runs MacOS 9... and the one I use every day: the latest MacBook Pro 17 (late 2011) customized with 2 internal SSDs. At home, it's connected to a second screen and an external keyboard.
Of course, it's not very fast compared to recent machines but it suits me and it's very pleasant for watching movies while traveling.