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From: Peter Ceresole on 24 Feb 2010 18:09 Peter Ceresole <peter(a)cara.demon.co.uk> wrote: > until I got a TonkaBook running 9.2, which was pleasant and stable with > SpeedDoubler and RAMDoubler. Ooops. You couldn't run SpeedDoubler with 9.2 because Apple had finally removed the last bits of 68xxx code from the OS- SpeedDoubler worked by caching the corresponding sections of PPC code at startup, so short-circuiting the Apple emulator that normally did the job before OS 9. Jeez, the things you remember... Another world... And the Amstrad 8256 I mentioned running Protext... Was a 8512. My main machine at the Beeb. My PA had a Tulip, a nice MSDOS machine, but she had to use Wordstar or Wordperfect. Either way, Protext on the cheaper machine was really better. And whatever printer we had to use, I could write a Protext driver that accessed all the fun features and custom characters... -- Peter
From: Andy Hewitt on 24 Feb 2010 18:43 Peter Ceresole <peter(a)cara.demon.co.uk> wrote: > Andy Hewitt <thewildrover(a)me.com> wrote: > > > Well, I started with a Performa 5200 and OS 7.5. That was absolutely > > awful. I did find OS 8.1 not too bad really. > > I started with a 6100/60 and OS 7.1.2, which was the first PPC-specific > OS, and was rather solid. But it was kind of slow. 7.5.1 was smoother, > but pretty damn unstable. And the 6100 was a slow machine anyway, > whatever you did. I ran SpeedDoubler, which really did work well and did > exactly what it claimed, but the first Mac I used that felt decently > quick was a beige G3. That was a lovely machine, and with OS8.1, > SpeedDoubler, RAMDoubler (mainly for its file handling which still > hasn't been equalled for me in its total simplicity when doing > incremental backups) and some extra RAM (can't remember how much) that > Mac was beautifully quick and very stable, and lasted me several years > until I got a TonkaBook running 9.2, which was pleasant and stable with > SpeedDoubler and RAMDoubler. Then a TiBook that I started out by > dual-booting into 9.2 or 10.2. Very quickly, I found myself preferring > 10.2. I only miss Chuck Yeager and a submarine game I had. > > Yes, even Text Edit isn't too bad now, it has enough features to make > > basic WP needs possible. > > The latest version of TextEdit is excellent, and can probably handle > most people's WP needs in full- including simple Word files. For sure, I opened a .docx file a few days ago that someone couldn't open with Word on Windows (they're still on 2003). > > However, as I've said before, I *really* miss Protext. > > Oh yes. I always will. I used it in Amsdos, on the CPC 6128, in CP/M on > an 8256, in Amigados on a borrowed Amiga, for an article about Protext > for an Amiga magazine (it was extremely quick on that machine, but I > never quite got used to the ways of the file system) and then in MSDOS 5 > and DESQView, which was honestly the best version; terrifically quick > and full of genuinely useful features like the WYSIWYG graphical view. > What a smashing text editor it was... This is not counting Protext in > ROM on the NC200 which was one of the most practical writer's laptops I > ever encountered. Mono dot matrix screen that was so much better > outdoors than any more 'modern' display. Backlit at the press of a key. > And on that slow ZX-81 machine, Protext was still fast. The machine was > small and light enough to carry on my bike, cheap enough not to worry > about losing it or breaking it. Battery life was extremly long- many > many hours. I remember writing scripts and outlines on a bench in Hyde > Park, in the sunshine. I wouldn't want to do that on Anne's MBP, for any > number of reasons. I went up to Protext 6.5 (the last version I believe) on my Atari ST. I don't think I've come across anything that could do a search and replace as fast as that could. > Now I use Pages '09; I no longer do that much writing, as such, and that > does me fine. I'm still on Pages '08, I mostly do page layout stuff, and that does for me (I still can't find anything in '09 that looks like it's an upgrade for me). -- Andy Hewitt <http://web.me.com/andrewhewitt1/>
From: Jim on 25 Feb 2010 01:11 Andy Hewitt <thewildrover(a)me.com> wrote: > Well, I started with a Performa 5200 and OS 7.5. That was absolutely > awful. I did find OS 8.1 not too bad really. LC475, 6400/200, iMac DV400, PowerMac G4 MDD DP1.25, iBook G3 600, Intel iMac 20" and Mac Pro 2x2.8 Quad core. Also a PowerBook G4 is in there somewhere, but I can't remember where. And a Cube, thanks to Zoara. Jim -- "Microsoft admitted its Vista operating system was a 'less good product' in what IT experts have described as the most ambitious understatement since the captain of the Titanic reported some slightly damp tablecloths." http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/
From: Woody on 25 Feb 2010 03:53 Peter Ceresole <peter(a)cara.demon.co.uk> wrote: > This is not counting Protext in > ROM on the NC200 which was one of the most practical writer's laptops I > ever encountered. Mono dot matrix screen that was so much better > outdoors than any more 'modern' display. Backlit at the press of a key. > And on that slow ZX-81 machine, Protext was still fast. Should that be ZX81, or Z80? I am not familliar with the NC200. -- Woody
From: Peter Ceresole on 25 Feb 2010 04:05
Woody <usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk> wrote: > Should that be ZX81, or Z80? I am not familliar with the NC200. You're right- it was a Z80. To be honest, I'd never really cared about the insides. It Just Worked. The only thing I did that was odd was to make a battery pack for it using a Maplins holder and D cells, so I could just use it forever with the backlight on in places like cutting rooms. The internals lasted a long time, but I hardly ever had to change those D cells. Jeez, it was so long ago, or at least it feels that way. I think I still have one somewhere (I used to have two, one as a spare, they were that cheap). But it has broken down. At that price thery weren't exactly tank built and mine had a fairly hard life being schlepped about in my pannier. -- Peter |