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

[notlikely@nowaymail.com (Stephen Thomas Cole)]

In article <dog_cow-1351615505@macgui.com>, D Finnigan
<dog_cow@macgui.com> wrote:

> 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.

Cheers David. I will certainly have another look at the comp.sys.mac.*
groups, only gave them a cursory glance before and didn't see a lot of
relevant posting going on. I shall drop some messages into the mix and see
if I can scare up some response!

Interesting what you say about the nature of the discussion around the
different platforms. I guess the Macintosh discussion is going to be that
much more fractured, or diluted maybe, inherently due to the scale and
breadth of the Mac platform.

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