Re: What do you use your vintage mac for // my answer to this question

I don't know if I answered this question. [[oh, as a school teacher by trade, correct grammar is never end a sentence with a preposition, so, it is: For what do you use your vintage Mac?]] I have a Mac 7300/200 ( I think that is) and I have 2 more like it with similar but slightly

Re: What do you use your vintage mac for

e Macs <vintage-macs@googlegroups.com> Sent: Thu, Feb 4, 2016 8:10 pm Subject: Re: What do you use your vintage mac for Pretty much one thing: play the games I grew up with! I need to maintain a fairly large spread from System 6 to early PPC versions of OS X. On Wednesday, February 3, 201

Re: What do you use your vintage mac for

Very cool. I have wondered if anyone used an old mac for schematics, I am a an electronics geek, and I have wanted to atleast make on schematic and PCB layout using vintage mac hardware. On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 1:00 PM, Robert Hesson wrote: > What don't I use them for...

Re: What do you use your vintage mac for

On 02/04/2016 04:44 PM, Louis Ciotti wrote: Very cool. I have wondered if anyone used an old mac for schematics, I am a an electronics geek, and I have wanted to atleast make on schematic and PCB layout using vintage mac hardware. I use a G4 to run VectorWorks, which was once called MiniCAD.

Re: What do you use your vintage mac for

Pretty much one thing: play the games I grew up with! I need to maintain a fairly large spread from System 6 to early PPC versions of OS X. On Wednesday, February 3, 2016 at 6:44:49 PM UTC-5, Louis Ciotti wrote: > > This is just a random question, but I am wondering what people are > actually

Re: What do you use your vintage mac for

What don't I use them for... That list is smaller My Quadra 650 is my page layout machine - complete with 17" multiple scan display. Has 136mb ram and a 10gb disk. Runs PageMaker and a ton of other titles. This machine is going to need caps soon I suspect because it occasionally has "senior

Re: What do you use your vintage mac for

I recently used my Classic to design a vector for laser cutting. I was building something and needed it doing. Had my Classic sat on my coffee table, as I'd been using it for writing. Illustrator 3 made it a painless job. My Mac of choice and the one that is in regular use, is my 8500. Which I

Re: What do you use your vintage mac for

> This is just a random question, but I am wondering what people are actually > using their vintage macs for. > I was using my G4 mac running OS9 for quicken, but recently stopped. what you mean for "vintage"? I still use my G4 ibook for general computing, libreoffice, tenfourfox, vlc and

What do you use your vintage mac for

This is just a random question, but I am wondering what people are actually using their vintage macs for. What software do you still find useful? Have you done anything to make it more useful? My biggest thing is being able to print, which I have had some success by using a mac mini, but that

Re: What do you use your vintage mac for

That's a question even a non-techie like me can answer. I have been using Word, Excel, Macdraw, and MyDatabase continuously and almost daily for about 25 years. Keep books and compute taxes with Excel, draw remodeling plans for my house with Macdraw, store contact info and photo records with