Need 50 slick-looking sheets of letterhead [OT]

[Dave Plowman (News)]

That's like saying you collect quality old cars and don't have a Rolls-Royce. ;-)

[Alex Buell]

On Wed, 26 Apr 2006 17:23:20 GMT "Amanda Angelika" waved a wand and this message magically appeared:

There's a knowledge base article on the Microsoft website that describes how to get around that. Very kind of them, I must say.

[JAF]

Why do you think everyone is called Lawrence?

[Peter Corlett]

Huge wrote: [...]

Well, you've got me beat. I've merely got a pile of old Amigas and Macs from the 90s. Still, at least I don't try to actually do my day-to-day computing on the slowly-crumbling pile of antique crap. Sometimes I raid the cupboard out of nostalgia and then find that it wasn't nearly as much fun as I remember.

I hold Risc OS in the same sort of contempt as MacOS 9, Windows 3.1 and all the other single-user systems with co-operative multitasking that have yet to be dragged kicking and screaming into the 1960s.

[Rob]

ostate difficulties? etty women? ide in yourself? iapism? ofessionally printed slick-looking sheets of letterhead?

-Rob

[Huge]

Also a uVAX2 (assuming my mate hasn't chucked it away), a SPARC 1+, a 2, a '10 & a '20 (actually, this one's still in use, it's my firewall), an Ultra T1 (destined to be new firewall), Ultra10 (sold to a colleague as soon as I get round to installing Sol10 on it) and an Ultra 60 (this machine). Oh, and an Ultra 2 (the "house server", where everything lives, more or less).

And on the antique front, a ZX-80, QL, Xerox 820-2 (a CP/M machine), several BBC Micros and all the media, software & manuals for everything.

The '11 is a rackmount 11/23+, which sadly has no peripherals other than a DL11 serial card for the console and 64K of memory (yes, you youngsters, I really do mean "K".) I've toggled small programs into it using the keyswitch emulator, so I know it works. Oh, and I have a genuine VT100 as the console.

Quite. I'm running Solaris 10 on my twin processor Ultra 60 with 2Gb of memory and mirrored 34Gb disks. A whole GBP230 from eBay.

[August West]

'Paul Middleton, Managing Director of RISCOS Ltd, commented that "The development of a 32-bit version of RISC OS 4.39 (RISC OS Adjust) opens up many new possibilities for 32-bit only computer users'

Look, tgey've discovered 32bit computing. Just 20 years late geting to the party.

[Steve Firth]

Oy! RISC OS is the same as MacOS 7.5.3, it never managed to get up to the standards of MacOS X.

[Owain]

I'll try something in TeX for comparison, when I get a tuit.

Owain

[Guy King]

The message from JAF contains these words:

I thought he thought they were all little old ladies.

[Amanda Angelika]

LOL means "Laughs out Loud" and creates a little animated laughing smiley icon in OE with QuoteFix mind the ROFL! Is the best animation. Of course only I can see them LOL

[Alex Buell]

On Wed, 26 Apr 2006 20:29:40 +0100 Steve Firth waved a wand and this message magically appeared:

Indeed, 7.5.5 was the last *good* MacOS for 68k Macs.

[Peter Corlett]

Dave Plowman (News) wrote: [...]

You seem to be stereotyping PC owners nicely yourself. You seem to have encountered some of the riceboys and are painting everybody else with the same brush.

Personally, about every two years I start to draw up a list of what's starting to break down across my various boxes, and then find whatever spare parts are a nice sweet spot in pricing and order them. I certainly don't buy the "latest" nor indeed something that can be pointed at and called a PC.

Perhaps RiscOS has some fancy feature that stops hard disks, fans, mice, keyboards, batteries and whatnot from wearing out after five years or so?

[Guy King]

The message from "Amanda Angelika" contains these words:

Yet another reason to avoid OE.

[Hypodeemic Nerdle]

On Wed, 26 Apr 2006 20:57:02 GMT, "Amanda Angelika" wrote this:

This is what I see every time someone starts LOLling online. If you're not genuinely Laughing Out Loud when you type "LOL", you just come across as a madperson.

Grk.

[JAF]

Oh, I see. So *that's* how you suck eggs . . .

(OE, FFS.)

You must really annoy the hell out of people. 'LOLA at the end of every post is annoying enough. Nothing's that funny.

Thank f*ck.

[John Cartmell]

I hadn't realised they had just released a new version of Unix just for that machine. Incredible.

Or had you missed the point?

[John Cartmell]

Doesn't exist.

[Amanda Angelika]

Well no You can't run Mac Power pc software on MacOS 7.5 it's obsolete and Mac OS X is based on Unix and is essentially a different operating system. So the old Mac OS is dead, but lives on in on my PC in an emulator which can run in Win98se on my other hard disk :)

[Alex Buell]

On Wed, 26 Apr 2006 22:25:41 GMT "Amanda Angelika" waved a wand and this message magically appeared:

Which emulator do you use? Personally I use Basilisk II on my Linux box, it runs MacOS 7.5.5. It's lovely.