[G4] Buying your own work computer

[Robert H. Baucom]

He has since retired, but a TV & Computer  Repair store in Arlington,  
TX was run with Mac II's up until three years ago. One in the office,  
one on the counter and one in the shop ... all on Apple Talk. He told  
me, "All my friends were giving me their old Mac II's, so I had  
'puters and parts galore. They do the job just fine and OS 8.6 is all  
I need.

Caught up in the "Have to have the latest thing" folks forget that  
back in the 80's, the front page of Time Magazine (and a lot of  
others) was developed with a Mac IIx.
If it worked then, it would work now... And people will GIVE YOU the  
old Adobe Software.

RHB

On Feb 19, 2009, at 4:33 PM, jonny wrote:

> Right off I knew I was the black sheep in this flock.  When the  
> rest of the class was booting up and monkeying around trouble- 
> shooting (!!?), I was up, running, and working on my lessons  
> immediately.  I knew I was on the right track with mac, but can you  
> imagine desktop publishing with a 9" monochrome monitor?  I did it,  
> and produced some pretty good work.  Printouts on a $6000 600 dpi  
> laser printer at the local mac store for "photo quality artwork".   
> I used a backpack made for the SE to take it to class.
>
> Just wanted to share this experience, for those who also went from  
> CPM to Mac.  It was an exciting time.
>
> Thanks, Robert, for reminding me!
>
> jonny