OT- What non-Macs do you own?

2005-08-13 Thread Caleb Cupples
I noticed it getting quiet and I was just curious to know what non-Macs all you have. Please list OS and processor type. My Non-Macs are: Setsuna: HP Pavilion a520n, AMD Athlon XP 3200+ Barton @ 2.1 Ghz , SuSE Linux 9.1 Professional and Hotaru: Toshiba Satellite 325 CDT, Intel Pentium I MMX

Re: OT - What non-Macs do you own?

2005-08-13 Thread Yersinia
Caleb writes, I noticed it getting quiet and I was just curious to know what non-Macs all you have. Please list OS and processor type. Hmmm, well, are non-Macs really that common among Mac owners who are serious enough about their Macs to be on LEM lists? I don't have any non-Macs...what

Re: OT - What non-Macs do you own?

2005-08-13 Thread Caleb Cupples
On Saturday 13 August 2005 04.24, Yersinia wrote: Hmmm, well, are non-Macs really that common among Mac owners who are serious enough about their Macs to be on LEM lists? It depends on what you're doing. If you're writing cross-platform software, you want to do tests on all the platforms

Re: OT- What non-Macs do you own?

2005-08-13 Thread LoveThemBeatles2
What was the question??? something about Linux Why would anyone own a non-Mac? H that's a very good point. I remember back in middle school we had Commodore 64's and Apple II's, then somewhere along the line I acquired an IBM XT. It didn't even run Windoze, DOS 5.0 if I remember

Re: OT- What non-Macs do you own?

2005-08-13 Thread Cameron Kaiser
I noticed it getting quiet and I was just curious to know what non-Macs all you have. Please list OS and processor type. *clears throat* These are on my desk or otherwise operational at any given time: bil: Commodore 128DCR, 1.0225/2.0 MHz 8502, BASIC 2.0/7.0. It connects to the LAN with a

Re: OT- What non-Macs do you own?

2005-08-13 Thread Noah Wood
I have two Non-Macs... 1: Dell Demension 2350 Intel Pentium 4 2.19 GHz with Windows XP Home with an 18.5GB HD 2: KLH 2800 Laptop running DOS 6 and MS Word 6 Slow and crappy On 8/13/05, Cameron Kaiser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I noticed it getting quiet and I was just curious to know what

Re: OT- What non-Macs do you own?

2005-08-13 Thread Howard R. Katz
On Sat, 13 Aug 2005, Caleb Cupples wrote: I noticed it getting quiet and I was just curious to know what non-Macs all you have. Please list OS and processor type. How about a fully-loaded Apple //e, used daily, and a couple of Apple IIGS's that are used for some special projects? I also

Re: OT- What non-Macs do you own?

2005-08-13 Thread Brian Mahoney
Caleb Cupples wrote: I noticed it getting quiet and I was just curious to know what non-Macs all you have. Please list OS and processor type. Caleb While I have quite a few Macs and Apples, I think most of my collection is x86 based. I'll start with the newer ones then delve a bit into

Re: OT - What non-Macs do you own?

2005-08-13 Thread Yersinia
Caleb writes, It depends on what you're doing. If you're writing cross-platform software, you want to do tests on all the platforms you're writing for, hence the PC. Also, most of my compilers and my preferred office suite are Linux and Windows only, and I don't feel like using Linux on a

Re: OT - What non-Macs do you own?

2005-08-13 Thread Doc Holliday
In addition to my current Macs: PowerMac G4 400 MHz Sawtooth 2 PowerBook 3400c's 1 PowerBook 1400c [I am a little thin on PowerBooks right now] I have several other non-Mac systems: Dell 500MHz PIII, Dell 700MHz PIII and a Dell PII laptop I needed Windoze boxes for business - gotta have

Re: OT - What non-Macs do you own?

2005-08-13 Thread Stuart Hart
Hi, For those of us in Britain, I have a BBC 32k and a Sinclair ZX81 Stuart On Saturday, August 13, 2005, at 07:24 pm, Peter F Grenier wrote: I still have my TI 99/4A. -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To

Re: OT - What non-Macs do you own?

2005-08-13 Thread Peter F Grenier
I still have my TI 99/4A. -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html

Inverter Board 5300 and 190

2005-08-13 Thread Beniamino Cenci Goga
Is the same? I pulled an inverter board from a 190 and put into a 5300ce: the screen shows 600x800 but the desktop is bigger so within the LCD (the LCD not the plastic frame...) I can only see a portion of the desktop. Ben -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small

Re: OT- What non-Macs do you own?: This thread is CLOSED

2005-08-13 Thread Beverly Woods
Caleb wrote: I noticed it getting quiet and I was just curious to know what non-Macs all you have. Please list OS and processor type. No, please don't. This is irrelevant content. Please -- if you have nothing to say about Macs, there is no need to take up list time and space with this kind

Word processing on 68K.

2005-08-13 Thread Caleb Cupples
I'm running Word 5.1 on my 190, but I'm looking for a wordprocessor that's a little more compatible with the newer stuff, such as AppleWorks 6, for when I have to print stuff on my grandpa's computer, and decent compatibility with MS Office 97, for Windoze. I do have ClarisWorks 4, but I don't

Re: Word processing on 68K.

2005-08-13 Thread Noah Wood
I know of two that are good... http://pure-mac.com/textword.html#texedit -- A lot of features are ported from SimpleText but more are there as well http://members.aol.com/LightWayText/#Download -- This one is a little more powerful, but I haven't used it too too much. If none of there fit you

Re: Word processing on 68K.

2005-08-13 Thread ACFX44501
I'm running Word 5.1 on my 190, but I'm looking for a wordprocessor that's a little more compatible with the newer stuff, such as AppleWorks 6, for when I have to print stuff on my grandpa's computer, and decent compatibility with MS Office 97, for Windoze. I do have ClarisWorks 4, but I don't

Re: Word processing on 68K.

2005-08-13 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Aug 13, 2005, at 3:54 PM, Caleb Cupples wrote: I'm running Word 5.1 on my 190, but I'm looking for a wordprocessor that's a little more compatible with the newer stuff, such as AppleWorks 6, for when I have to print stuff on my grandpa's computer, and decent compatibility with MS

Re: Word processing on 68K.

2005-08-13 Thread Fabian Fang
On Aug 13, 2005, at 3:54 PM, Caleb Cupples wrote: I'm running Word 5.1 on my 190, but I'm looking for a wordprocessor that's a little more compatible with the newer stuff, such as AppleWorks 6, for when I have to print stuff on my grandpa's computer, and decent compatibility with MS Office

Re: Word processing on 68K.

2005-08-13 Thread Caleb Cupples
What's the general consensus on LightWayText? I found a 68K version, and I'm thinking about trying it. Any opinions on the Mac version would be nice. Caleb -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | --

Re: OT- What non-Macs do you own?

2005-08-13 Thread Eddie Roosenmaallen
These are scattered about my home: nike: Athlon XP 2600+ @ 1.8GHz, WinXP Pro (*eugh*) clotho: Celery/566, Slackware Linux 9.0 oceanus: Tandon nb/386sx laptop, 386/25MHz, Minix 2.0.4 polyphemus: Tandy 1000 SL/2, 8086 CPU @ 8MHz, Minix 2.0.1 nyx: Toshiba Satellite Pro 4300, P3/650, Slackware 10.0

Re: Inverter Board 5300 and 190

2005-08-13 Thread Malcolm Cornelius
Is the same? I pulled an inverter board from a 190 and put into a 5300ce: the screen shows 600x800 but the desktop is bigger so within the LCD (the LCD not the plastic frame...) I can only see a portion of the desktop. You got the correct LCD on that machine ? Sounds like what happens when

Re: Word processing on 68K.Compatibility?

2005-08-13 Thread Dale Hill
What is this nonsense about compatibility? Every wordprocesser is compatible with any other. I use Scorpio as my basic wordprocesser. I own my own copy. It will unformat any worprocessor's output. The only machine I cannot use as a text-file producer is Commodore 64. But, since my Commodore