Yo compacters everywhere, A short while back, jwhite asked:
>So now that I've spewwed all that out, does anyone else out there >actually use their compact on a daily basis for anything productive? >Anybody have a newer, faster machine gathering dust, while the older one >does the work? Or am I just odd? In my small town, the following are known to occur using compact Macs to help pay the mortgage: A manufacturer of aircraft parts uses a Classic to drive a pattern cutter which is used to cut glue sheets which are then applied to extruded aluminum (ok; aluminium to a few of you) pieces on their way to becoming aircraft parts; A graphics illustrator does copywriting on an SE while her PowerComputing main Mac is rendering. She then imports text copy via ethernet doing the fancy text work on her main Mac with its DTP apps; A local printer still prepares a local biweekly tabloid and other ad supplements entirely on a Mac Plus; A diver (as in SCUBA diver) maintains his entire business accounts, inventory, and billings using MYOB 5 on an SE connected to a dirt slow StyleWriter (I). He had migrated most, but not all of his stuff including MYOB 5 to his new iMac before his kid took control. He still uses the SE now connected to a Personal LaserWriter 300 I sold to him. That printer saved him about as much wasted time as the iMac alone would have saved him. A bookshop uses an SE to maintain eMail contact with some variety of book finding network; Also, a few teachers, in the local schools where peecees have replaced Macs, still will not surrender their SE or Classics "...until the District replaces my Mac with something that will run my best teaching software!" Some of these teachers are quite young, supported by their curriculum committees, and by their administrators thus those compacts are going to be there for a long time. The fellow who rents me my weekend market space to sell my pretty little Macs has a real day job as owner of a small advertising/promotions agency. After I rebuilt it, he put his three year dead SE/30 back to work doing serious poster and brochure design work. His SE/30 has a Radius card connected to a 19" Radius Monitor; runs PhotoShop 3, Quark, Illustrator, Freehand, and a few other of those big ticket DTP apps. There are no games or cute things on that Mac, just serious work and that is just what it is again doing. The people at Adobe in Seattle tell me they still have a few SE/30s in service. Adobe still supports PhotoShop 3 running on an SE/30 (such as the fellow above) for "select" clients where I assume select to mean bigger graphics houses also using many current copies of Adobe products on their main Macs. Two women code warriors from the Mac Business Group at Microsoft (Yes, in Redmond!) tell me they have an up and running SE and an SE/30 with Word 5.1 (and its related Office suite parts) on them. Yes, they have handled tech support questions on occassion. Throughout the State of Washington, you will find many branch offices of the Bank of America still widely equipped with networked SE compact Macs. They fit on a standard desk, intimidate no one, are slow enough to allow their "personal bankers" to actually be personal with clients rather than a slave to an oversized commanding computer. No boss has to be concerned whether an employee is wasting time on the internet. More important, networked running an old MS Office suite, they still do the job of managing accounts, preparing or reviewing documents, addressing envelopes, or calculating a quick APR. After all these years of technological improvement, these are still black ink on white paper kinds of tasks which an SE does just fine even for multi-national businesses. Bill -- Compact Macs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/>. Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Compact Macs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/compact.shtml> The FAQ: <http://macfaq.org/> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive:<http://www.mail-archive.com/compact.macs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
