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From: Rainer Pleyer on 21 Oct 2006 17:32 Dave Balderstone <dave(a)N_O_T_T_H_I_Sbalderstone.ca> wrote: > I still have a Mac at work that runs a Harlequin RIP on OS 8.1. It > processes the classified display ads for our large weekly newspaper. Our 17(!) years old IIci just died -- it had been running 24/7 (System 7), mainly doing Leonardo transfers. Rainer
From: Dave Balderstone on 21 Oct 2006 17:54 In article <1hnkzq0.rtlu1q1x2mni0N%usenet-ungelesen(a)gmx.de>, Rainer Pleyer <usenet-ungelesen(a)gmx.de> wrote: > Dave Balderstone <dave(a)N_O_T_T_H_I_Sbalderstone.ca> wrote: > > > I still have a Mac at work that runs a Harlequin RIP on OS 8.1. It > > processes the classified display ads for our large weekly newspaper. > > Our 17(!) years old IIci just died -- it had been running 24/7 (System > 7), mainly doing Leonardo transfers. Heh. I recall years back when a IIci came into the Vancouver area shop I was at for a logic board upgrade to a Quadra 700 and the service manager snagged the IIci board for his home box and returned his IIcx board to Apple instead. The IIci was a sweet box at the time.
From: Tony Winston on 22 Oct 2006 09:18 Jamie Kahn Genet wrote: > > It's OS X or OSX or anything without the excessive full stops. > > Regards, > Jamie Kahn Genet (who is in a pedantic frame of mind today ;-) ). I'm still using the punctuation rules of English I learned from Mrs. Gliksman in my Grade 9 typing class in about 1972. I was taught proper English. The periods have a purpose: They indicate that the letters should be pronounced one at a time. Without them the abbreviation reads as "osix". Also, people here use slang like 'luser' and 'troll', which is not proper English. Tony
From: Jon on 22 Oct 2006 09:30 Tony Winston <unreal(a)address.com> wrote: > The periods have a purpose: They indicate that the letters should be > pronounced one at a time. Without them the abbreviation reads as "osix". Which with all due respect is not relevant at all in this case, because as a registered trade mark it is to be regarded as a proper name. That means we write it _and_ pronounce it the way the owner of the name wants us to, no matter what we might think of the spelling privately. If it were a generic term, I would agree with you -- but it isn't. It is written "Mac OS X", possibly with some addition like version name or number, but definitely no periods. Check <http://www.apple.com/macosx/>. Nowhere is it written with periods. -- /Jon For contact info, run the following in Terminal: Mail: echo 36199371860304980107073482417748002696458P|dc Skype: echo 139576319600233690471689738P|dc
From: Tony Winston on 22 Oct 2006 09:31
Dave Balderstone wrote: > > In article <4535AED2.E313BF24(a)address.com>, Tony Winston > <unreal(a)address.com> wrote: > > > nospam wrote: > > > > > > Tony Winston wrote: > > > > > > > So the 9.22 on my computer is my only remaining working copy and I don't > > > > want to mess with it until I've mastered X. > > > > > > In that situation I think first I would burn a cd with the system folder > > > and as much other stuff as I could fit on it (or a DVD if it has a DVD > > > burner), then try booting from it to make sure I copied everything right. > > > > > > Not answering your question here, but I think it might be a good idea. > > > > > > Andy > > > > Thanks, Andy. > > > > I've tried repeatedly to do that, but I can't burn anything on my DVDs ? > > even in X. The options are grayed. I checked the Help section but it was > > of no help. > > > > I have a package of Apple 4x blank DVD-Rs. I tried two of them with the > > same lack of results. > > Do you have a DVD burner in the Mac? Or is it limited to burning CDs > and read-only for DVDs? > > If you run System Profiler (in the Utilities folder) it will tell you. I have a program called, "Disk Burner" which comes as part of O.S. 10, but I don't know why it won't work. I thought that it would allow me to copy data onto my DVD'Rs, but it's not doing anything. Also, when I bought my used Mac, the salesman included a c.d. containing a program called "Patchburn II" so that when I got O.S. 10 I could burn c.d.s. The documentation on the c.d. says: "This program generates and installs drivers for CD/DVD-burners that are available on Mac OS X systems. This allows many, otherwise unsupported burners to be used directly with Mac OS X, iTunes and Disk Burner." Is it safe to install that Patchburn II onto my O.S. 10 drive? I'm using O.S. 10.47 and 10.48, but Patchburn is for 10.43. Tony |