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Jotokun
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on: August 01, 2008, 16:31
Hello, I got started wtih macintosh computers very early, introduced to my first one at school at the age of 6. It was an LC580, and if it weren't for that I dont think I would love computers as much as I do today. I've owned alot of macs but unfortenetly I got rid of all my broken ones a few years ago, not realizing that all but one had a simple fix. I used to own a power macintosh 6100 that ate hard drives, a G3 AIO that had its monitor go out, a IIci that I traded for the 6100, an LC580 with a bad HD that I didnt know could be replaced, and an LCIII that had its logic board fail. I guess I dont have very good luck with computers at times... I currently own an SE FDHD running 7.1, an original imac dual booting 9.2.1 and 10.2.8, a 520c that was heavily abused by its former owner and barely works running 7.5.5 and a powerbook 1400cs running 7.6.1 I got the powerbook because my PC laptop went out and I needed something to do schoolwork on that was both cheap and portable. The 520c was embarrassing to take out becaues of the physical abuse done to it, and I found the 1400cs at a flea market for $15. I downgraded it from 8.0 to 7.6.1 to give it some speed based on a tip from Low End Mac, and it definitely was faster. I revived the battery with the freezer trick, but was only getting 20 minutes out of it, and if I used MS Office it would go down to 10 minutes because of all the HD access. And then I discovered RAM Disks. Using a minimal install of 7.6.1 and ClarisWorks 1 that barely fit in my 8mb ramdisk, saving all my documents on a compact flash card and shutting off the HD, I suddenly had a 1 hour 20 minute battery life. It was also so zippy, that I was in shock the first time I used it. I quickly fell in love with 7.6.1 and in a quest to find more software for it stumbled upon this site. With claris I have a great office suite, but I am still looking for multimedia stuff. I tried MP Free, but with only 16mb of ram, it was painfully slow and was absolutely dreadful on my battery life. I have quicktime, but I dont expect to do much video watching on it. When I get a wifi card for it I will use a combination of IE 5 and Netscape 4.8, because I've had good experience with IE and this site recommends Netscape. Quake and Prometheus(A bad qix clone) provide any need of gaming entertainment for me, and while some might say the passive matrix screen makes it not a good gaming machine, I just say it adds a challenge. If it weren't for my job requiring a certain windows program, I'd probably use the 1400 as my main computer, its that good. So thats my history with macs and why I joined this site. |
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rlawson
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64 MB Posts: 92 
Reply #1 on: August 03, 2008, 02:15
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welcome to the site, it's a ton of fun. I'm interested in what printer you use, since it sounds like you are using classic mac as one of your main computers ?
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Jotokun
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2 MB Posts: 3
Reply #2 on: August 04, 2008, 03:06
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For my printer I use an espon stylus, but its not OS9 native. What I do is take my claris works documents over to my imac and copy them to ms word 98, and then copy them to my PC to print them.
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