[DM-MUG] Re: Introduction

[pegleg]

Hello Paul,

Welcome to Iowa.

> Subject: [DM-MUG] Introduction
> Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 13:46:34 -0500
>
> rom: "Ann & Paul Neeley - DSL" <ianmcfur at goldfieldaccess.net>
>
> Reply-To: Des Moines Mac Users Group <dmmug at dmmug.org>
> To: Des Moines Mac User Group <dmmug at dmmug.org>
>
> Hello
>
>   My name is Paul Neeley, - I reside in Eagle Grove, Iowa - I feel somewhat
> isolated here as my last residences were Chicago Ill and Rockford, Ill.
> In Chicago, I had access to the installation group that established the
> Macintosh at our plant (GTE - Automatic Electric).  By the time that the
> plant operation moved 50 miles to Genoa, Ill., we had given up the Macintosh
> but a few of the die-hards remained and we had Stateline Mac User Group in
> Rockford, Ill.  I never became a mavin with the Mac, - I was an "old school"
> activist, and our use was limited at work because of recent introduction and
> then our change-over to PC.  I have grown comfortable with Mac, and in the
> inevitable comparison with my wife's Hewlett Packard PC, I do not care to
> change my allegiance.
>   My difficulty lies in the fact that my current (!!!) Mac is an 8500 that I
> acquired from the plant when the changeover to PC took place.  I have
> installed an 350 mhz processor from XLR8, - I am running OS 8.6  I feel that
> I am beginning to outgrow my unit.  I have wishes and desires that are not
> in keeping with the 8500 capabilities.
>   My wishes are to take some of the possible 1500 78 rpm records that I have
> (both 10 and 12 inch) as well as early monophonic LP's and put them onto
> CD's.  I have all of the electronic gear as I started collecting it back
> when 'high fidelity' was still spelled out.  In anticipation of upgrading, I
> rushed out and bought "soundsoap" to help remove noises.  I am looking for a
> unit that will take advantage of this program (It indicates it needs OS X)
>  - However, I currently have Office 98 on my 8500 with several files in
> Excel, one of which is 3500+ lines that is my inventory of music on my
> records and their boxes/locations.  Furthermore, over the years, I have
> utilized MacDraw Pro to generate many drawings of various cases, house
> modifications, and projects I would not like to readily lose.
>   I therefore wonder what form of magical Mac I should be in search of  -
> should it be one that will operate in both OS X and OS 9 {I've heard that
> this is bad (?)}.  Does anyone know if 9 is compatible with the old
> MacDraw, - Is there more sanity in just keeping the old 8500 for the
> cuniform history and go with OS X?
>
I have occasion to access old MacDraw documents to view and
print. I am still using MacDraw 1.9.5 with OS 9.1. It works
fine with one caveat. This old version of MacDraw keeps
track of fonts by the order that they were loaded in the
system. If I move the app to a newer Mac with different
fonts it will reorder the fonts because they were loaded
into the system a different order. I believe Apple fixed
this in MacDraw Pro. If you upgrade your 8.6 system to OS9.x
then you should have no problem. However if you do a clean
install or move to another Mac then you may experience this
issue.

Personally I like to keep an older Mac on my network to run
classic software to avoid these type of issues. If you are
running OS9 or better then you can still access the files
from OSX Tiger as long as you check the box in the "File
Sharing" control panel to Enable access using TCP/IP. This
is a good reason to upgrade to OS9.x on your 8500.

Feel free to e-mail me if you have further questions.

>   -  And in connection with this, what is
> the general feel of the pentium-powered Mac?
>   I wish to someday get down to Des Moines for one of your
> meetings, things
> have not been working in that direction for me.
>   Thanks for anyone wading through all this. - Have a
> great day.
>
>   Paul Neeley
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