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gskidmark
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on: March 01, 2011, 17:09
Hi everybody. I am just getting my 9600/200 set up with 7.6.1. I am planning on getting Photoshop, After Effects and Premiere running on this machine and work on family videos and personal design projects. I am a motion graphics designer/animator that uses After Effects practically every day. I learned After Effects on version 3.1 back in 1997 or 98 and would love to get it back on this machine and start using it again. I just need to find it somewhere... I am wondering, what do other folks out there do with their old System 7 setups? There are some obvious limitations to running this old OS in 2011 and beyond so what exactly are you personally doing with your vintage computers? Using them as servers? Print design? Web design? Writing? Programming? Let's hear your story about how you are productive (or semi-productive) on your old Mac. -Gary |
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PB540fanatic
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4 MB Posts: 7
Reply #1 on: March 06, 2011, 01:36
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I use my PowerMac 7500 daily, using it now to write this reply. I mostly use it for making 3D images with a combination of Bryce 2 and Amapi. With some Photoshop 5 work touching up some of the images. I can also use Adobe PageMaker for some 90's retro looking web design. It's setup to power itself on in the morning with speech recognition software Apple Plaintalk, you can ask it the time and date or to open files or programs. Along with my PowerMac I sometimes use an Apple QuickTake 100 digital camera and a Newton 110 for note taking. Oh and I can also hook up my old VCR to watch movies in Apple Video Player. 
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beachycove
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16 MB Posts: 31
Reply #2 on: March 12, 2011, 16:35
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I use it in its various versions regularly, and have used it since 1991. Uses today include: Scanning station: For this I use a Quadra 650, with some interesting nubus and acceleration cards (e.g., a DSP accelerator card and Daystar Turbo 040 @40MHz with 128k cache), a ColorOneScanner 1200/30 and some (early90s) high-end graphics software tools like Photoshop and Acrobat. This one runs 7.6.1 with all updates as recommended on this site for straightforward networking with machines running anything up to (in my case) X.4. Runs unstoppably like a tank, and still does exactly what I need it to do. Why upgrade? Word processing: Nisus Writer 5, which runs fine on any version of System 7, is still unsurpassed for knocking out serious text on old hardware — and small screens. I use this on various machines, including a Color Classic with 33MHz 68030 via an LC550 logic board (=Color Classic II) under plain-Jane 7.5 (which works well on 68k hardware - best avoided on PPC). I also run it on a Quadra 840av running both a greyscale Radius Two Page display for context and a crystal-clear AppleVision 14" monitor for actual text entry. The Claris Office suite: I run this on a Quadra 605 under 7.6.1, supplemented by Claris products like Home Page and Claris CAD. I tend to use this for niche jobs. Networking: I also run, regularly but only as necessary, a copy of Apple Internet Router (for THE most robust bridging of localtalk and ethertalk via "zones") on an LC475 running a base installation of 7.1 (with System Update 3, and without Open Transport). My 604 and higher PPC hardware runs 8.6 or 9, mainly because of HFS+, much better multitasking, and much more PPC code. I tend to use SCSI cards with 9GB or so drives, and these are wasted on a System 7 machine. A good deal of it, though, could run 7.6.1 if I so decided. Maybe I'll give it a go on a small drive one of these dark, late winter evenings, and compare the result with the 68k hardware....
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jmarran14221
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16 MB Posts: 30 
Reply #3 on: April 05, 2011, 16:45
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(Sounds like an itch-cream commercial) I was successful last Autumn in running 7.6.1 on my 8500/120/G3. And I even have it installed on a SheepShaver emulator. It runs AS PROMISED: FAST. When you have "enough" hardware, it is quite nice. However, one aspect of both 6 and 7 that I can't bloody stand is the need to hold the mouse button down while browsing through a dock menu, etc. It is annoying, and my least favorite thing about Classic Mac OS. For what it WAS, though, compared to Win3.1/Win95...night and day.
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