Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/07/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> Twin floppies are a must have though $495 for the external floppy is a > bit steep it will save days of disk swaps when you are loading > programs like Lotus Jazz or Ashton Tate's Full Write Professional > though for Full Write you might want to bite the bullet and spend > $1200 to get 4 one MB sticks of 1120ns or faster RAM and the MacPlus > Upgrade Kit for $1995 for the logic board and drive. And while the > machine is apart you might as well upgade the flyback transformer. > On Jul 24, 2009, at 11:31 AM, Mark Rabiner wrote: > >>> Enough computer partisanship. I've been working with computers >>> since 1950 >>> (really) and ALL computers fail - usually at the most inconvenient >>> time. Sonny >>> may well have gotten a lemon but Apple laptops (except for the 5300 >>> disaster) >>> have proven unusually reliable. My 1984 era Mac is still working. >>> >>> Larry Z >> >> Twin floppies? >> >> >> Mark William Rabiner >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information I got my SE and since I wanted to use Pagemaker they told me I needed one of those new fangled Hard drives. A year later I upgraded my ram from one megabyte to two for 999 bucks. I used CAT CONTACTS ACTIVITIES AND TIME out of Moon Bay something california and I had to restart my computer with extensions off to use it. As well as Photoshop 1.1 I'd hit a filter button with Photoshop then go make a pot of coffee in the kitchen. Drink a cup. then come back to my office in the other room just in time for it to be finishing. Almost always looked real bad. I did that several times a night. Never been the same since. I hear there's a large bright thing in the sky called "The Sun"?!!? Mark William Rabiner