Re: What sort of Apple user are you?

[magnusfalkirk <dean.phares@gmail.com>]

On Apr 29, 10:19 pm, "Michael J. Mahon" <mjma...@aol.com> wrote:
> > That'd make you a "user"--a rare breed.
>
> Rarer now, but I expect that most of us "old-timers" were once
> users, too.  Appleworks was hugely popular, and was almost
> entirely for "users".
>
> In the beginning, buying an expensive computer seemed to
> require some practical justification.  ;-)
>
> I was a user (for practical purposes) until the late 1990s.
> That's when I stopped updating my Appleworks (was Visicalc)
> tax spreadsheet and started using a PC app.  It's still hard
> to beat the modifiability of a spreadsheet, though.
>
> I also used my //e for word processing (with Superfonts) and
> for desktop publishing.
>
> -michael
>
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>
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> tool--and it's seriously underused."

Well I guess I fall into the "user" category, but started out as a
gamer when I first bought my ][+ back in 81. Stepped into the Apple II
world from a "Trash 80" thanks to a friend who had used a II in
college. When the Air Force sent me to Germany in 83 I started the
transition from strictly gamer to user. Bought a copy of Newsroom to
do a newsletter that the radar approach control I worked in sent out
to the fighter squadrons we supported. Bought an Apple IIe system in
85 and then in 86 was stationed at Scott AFB in S. Illinois and ran
the newsletter for a Star Trek fan club, still with Newsroom, but
eventually a combination of Appleworks and Publish It! until I went to
Alaska in 92. Used Appleworks database to track my science fiction
library and video tape library. Also used Print Shop, and eventually
Print Magic, to do cards, calendars and posters.

Eventually added a //c and a GS to the collection and continued to use
Appleworks and Publish It! Unfortunately, eventually got rid of the //
e and //c, and later killed the motherboard in the GS. At which point
I made the stupid mistake of tossing ALL my Apple II stuff. Got back
into the Apple II through emulators and eventually re-acquired an
Apple //e, then GS and finally a //c. Have downloaded software from
all the repositories, and bought some through eBay. Getting back into
using Appleworks and Publish It! and leaning toward tinkering with
programming, which I played a little with in the early 80's.

Dean