[rollei_list] Re: Way OT: NeXT computers
- From: keith_w <keith_w@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 11:37:14 -0800
Frank Dernie wrote:
For web and word processing a 486 is fine. Run contemporary software
and don't upgrade to a more recent version of a Word Processor. These
have been padded out by the software vendor such that the customer
thinks he/she needs to upgrade their computer. That's how the software
and hardware business have managed to ratchet up people into using what
by any standards is a blazingly powerful computer just to emulate a
typewriter.
Frank
Aha I suspected so...
I have a short book (72 pages) called, "The Mac is NOT a Typewriter."
It's sub-titled "A style manual for creating professional-level type on
your Macintosh."
Filled with good stuff, for those professionals who just got a computer,
and are going to use it for a decent word processor.
It's a delightful book, by Peachpit Press, ©1990. ISBN 0-938151-31-2.
I keep my copy right alongside my copy of Strunk & White's "The Elements
of Style." <g>
keith whaley
[...still waiting for his newly won Rollei to arrive in the mail...]
On 28 Nov, 2005, at 19:09, keith_w wrote:
Jerry Lehrer wrote:
Thor,
Pretty impressive jargon there!
My next computer will probably be my last, as I am still
using my first. It is a IBM 486 (pre-Pentium) with 16 Mb
(or is it 64 Mb) of RAM.
Jerry
[...]
What, pray tell, do you USE a computer for?
keith whaley
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