Re: What has changed in the Apple world last 6 months?

["Paul Grammens" <grammens@svn.net>]

Donald C. Lee <coach41@pacbell.net> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
>     Paul, I don't know long you've used an Apple II, but Appleworks was a
> staple of many users (including business users) for years.  And with the
> upgrades that were made in the past few years (4.0 --> 5.0 ---> Y2K
> compliant) it remains a useful tool.
>

I'm a relative newbie. I cherish my Apple II's as facinating historical
artifacts. I play with them. I wouldn't dream of actually doing work on
them, just as few horse owners would consider riding their horse to work.


>     And so while Appleworks may seem outdated, keep in mind that most
> people run 4.0-5.0+ on IIGS's or souped up IIe's (1 meg of RAM or
> more).  So while the II's are "slow", Appleworks is text-based and can
> still do calculations pretty well on a souped up machine.
>

I guess it depends on what you are doing. I had a business owner upgrade
from a 233mhz Pentium to a 600 mhz, because it was taking to long to do
backups and access their database. Time is money in the busniess world. If
your needs are minimal, you COULD get by with a pencil and paper, after all.
Spreadsheets existed before computers.

>     And for these reasons, I think Appleworks is still viable.  I
> personally don't use AppleWorks anymore (I only have a 128K IIe), but I
> can see people still using it.
>

More power to them!  But I still find it astounding...  Of course, there are
still those people who don't use computers at all!
-Paul