[X4U] fellow luddites?

[Earle Jones]

On Nov 17, 2006, at 2:06 AM, Geoffrey Loeffler wrote:

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> On Oct 28, 2006, at 8:31 PM, Nick Scalise wrote:
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>> On Oct 28, 2006, at 8:47 PM, nk wrote:
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>>> I am planning to stay put with respect to my Mac hardware,  
>>> software and OS.
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>> Do you mean like the folks that are still on OS 9?
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> OS 9 is now 7 year old and still runs everything just fine, except  
> the web browser maybe getting unusable due to lack of upgrades. But  
> unless your high end graphics, video, movie or music editor. That  
> is probably  90% of the average computer user who do email, surfing  
> and keeping photos. How much power do you really need. These  
> machines already are way over powered then the average user needs,  
> the software companies just keep building bloatware to take more  
> space and to take more e RAM but what can you really do that you  
> can't on 9 or could have done if Apple kept  support for a browser.
>
> Al products are built to become self obsolete, so you and  all the  
> others just keep  buying blazing speed, more powerful. I wrote a  
> legal brief on a Mac 512 in MacWrite, how could I possibly  have  
> done it any faster on the most powerful computer today. I can only  
> type so fast. That was system 6 and it worked just fine. I have a  
> G3 6100 run 24/7 does everything my Pismo's do, which does  
> everything my 1.2 Ghz iBooks do, which does everything my 1.67Ghz  
> G4 PB does.

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I have a 1956 K & E slide rule and it does everything that I need.   
Who needs more than three significant figures anyway?

earle
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