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

["Donald C. Lee" <coach41@pacbell.net>]

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.

    And so while Appleworks may seem outdated, keep in mind that most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.

    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.

    The only problem is sharing files with those dog-gone PC users.  But
if it's a small business, I guess it is entirely possible!  

    As for me personally, I was happy with my older version of Appleworks
but then school and life caught on.  Otherwise I might still be using
it.  Appleworks can handle my basketball statistics as well as my PC
(except for the multiple worksheets and cross worksheet calcs).  

Just some thoughts,
Don

Donald C. Lee
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On Tue, 5 Dec 2000, Paul Grammens wrote:

> 
> The Apple II Mail Group <a2mg@aol.comNomail> wrote
> 
> > So despite the fact that most of the
> > discussion is now hardware talk (=boring), things have certainly changed
> for
> > the better.
> >
> 
> To each his/her own!  I have to say, it just astounds me that anyone would
> care about making AppleWorks Y2K compliant. That infers actually using an
> Apple II to get work done.  Much as I love my Apple II's I wouldn't dream of
> trying to get work done with one, other than just for kicks.  That's like
> driving around in a horse and buggy.  You might do it for fun, but to get
> business done?!   Like I said, to each his/her own, I much prefer the
> interesting hardware/OS info.
> -Paul
> 
> 
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