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

[Roy and/or Janet Miller <millers@inetnebr.com>]

"Donald C. Lee" wrote:

> 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     And so while Appleworks may seem outdated,

While I own legal copies of several versions of Appleworks (up through version 3.0
- I wish I could find the more recent copies for a decent price) I must admit that
I don't do my work on my II. BUt that doesn't mean that the II couldn't do most,
if not all of my work, and nearly as fast as my IBM Pentium. Most of what most
people do is only text editing or flat file data base work, or light weight
spreadsheet work (except, of course, for web stuff). In fact, if it weren't for
the difficulty of putting Roman, Greek, and Hebrew alphabets on the same screen,
I'd be using a II or a PC-DOS machine for most of my work Let's face it. If the
hardware you have, and the software you know so well does the job that you need to
do, in the time you need to do it, you don't *need* a new machine or new software.
Who needs a car that does 140 mph when the speed limit is 55? (But it can be fun!)

Roy

> 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
> >
> >
> >