Re: Just wondering, any vintage Mac experts resident here?

[D Finnigan <dog_cow@macgui.com>]

Stephen Thomas Cole wrote:
>
> Apologies for off-topic, just fishing really! If anyone knows of a
> Macintosh newsgroup that's active that I've not found yet, please let me
> know! (I am a member of the 68kmla.org site so could post this there, but
> I'm getting a kick out of working on Usenet on this computer. Vintage
> comms for a vintage machine!!!)

I was about to suggest 68kmla when I started reading your post, but now I
see that you already know of it.

The funny thing about the Mac versus that Apple II newsgroups is that while
the discussions in comp.sys.mac.system, for example, flow from System 6 and
7 in the early 90s up to OS 8, 9, and OS X today, the Apple II is frozen in
time in many regards so the discussions have indeed evolved over the past 20
years, but not to the same advanced degree as the Mac discussions.

Though the discussions about cracking software that we have today are
probably the most wild evolution in the Apple II newsgroups. ;-)

However, I think that a few of the regular posters in the Mac groups are
older people who have been using Macs for quite awhile, so you may be able
to post your topics about older Macs in the Mac newsgroups and still get
some good discussions. It should be entirely obvious who actually knows and
remembers about the old Macs, and those people who don't.

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