datajerk wrote:
On Apr 29, 4:29 pm, Robert Boucher <bouch...@alumni.texas.net> wrote:In article <dog_cow-1304098...@macgui.com>, dog_...@macgui.com (D Finnigan) wrote: I have used my IIe since I first got it to keep: 1. Medical records 2. Daily expenses 3. Auto records with automatic notice of various maintenance needs 4. Stock purchases 5. Weekly tracking of mutual funds 6. Daily rain amounts for many years (use a relative DB to average the daily rates per year and compare to the current amount 7. Bike mileage with several running averages 8. Total expenses on my house 9. Possessions (date, location, price,etc) 10. several others, but you get the idea. I use mainly DB's and a lot of macros.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 NadaNet 3.1 for Apple II parallel computing! Home page: http://home.comcast.net/~mjmahon/ "The wastebasket is our most important design tool--and it's seriously underused."