Re: where to go for old mac questions (i know this is an apple group)

[mjmahon@aol.com (Michael J. Mahon)]

Cali Ruchala wrote:

>In article <andl4o$6nl$1@venus.itns.co.za>, Stephen Shaw
><botstarver@readersdigest.com> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:58:57 GMT, Mike Pfaiffer wrote:
>> 
>> >       I kind of agree with what you day about group additions. If
>> > divided along microprocessor family the discussions might be more
>focused.
>> > Traditionally the // users have had no problem with /// users or those
>> > using // emulators. They all run 6502 code and access the hardware in a
>> > similar way.
>> >
>> >       The speed bump is when the issue of the Lisa and other very early
>> > Macs pop up. I own a plus, IIcx (needs a new power supply), IIsi, and a
>> > fried LC. I've asked questions from Mac people. The response was "Junk
>the
>> > old machine and buy a G3". I can relate to what Mac people are saying
>about
>> > finding better information here.
>
<snip>
>There's some extended message board I happened across today called
>"the 68k liberation army" which looks both cute and super-helpful,
>with people doing more things with their 68ks than I thought possible.
>Plus there's always archaic-apples.com, which isn't really mac-o-centric 
>or q-&-a based, but it's the kind of library I wish I had growing up as 
>a kid. If someone's looking for 68k help, I found a ton of cool 
>places today in about four or five minutes of searching on google.
>It's not usenet, but it's still pretty nice for 68k users.

Thanks for bringing this to my attention!  The URL is:

http://www.68kmla.com/

>> >       As we've all discussed before, I really think the 68k Mac folks
>> > need their own newsgroup. Not because we are exclusionary here, but
>because
>> > it would produce a more focused dialogue. In addition these people would
>> > develop their own FAQs (which I wouldn't mind reading). If a problem is
>> > common to both sets of machines (// and Mac) there is always the
>> > crossposting capabilities of the newsreaders. It would also let me ask
>> > my question about connecting my HP IIIp to my Macs and get an
>> > appropriate response. ;-)
>> >
>> 
>> I agree with you, if we start mixing questions about IIs and Macs in a
>> newsgroup
>> I think it will turn into a recipe for chaos especially if the threads get
>> mixed
>> or off topic subjects creep into a thread.
>
>
>I agree, but I don't think a 68k newsgroup will be anything
>but chaotic. I notice you guys get a lot of "How do I get
>firewire working on a Tibook?" questions, and "mac" isn't even
>in the newsgroup name. comp.sys.mac.68k comes before 
>comp.sys.mac.system alphabetically. I suppose you'd get less
>of it here, though. ;-)

I think that the problem is that many recent Mac users don't know
much about computers or computer history.  (One consequence
of being easy to use is that non-experts use it! ;-)  So perhaps the
issue is how to choose a group name that will be relatively immune
to accidental newbie posts.  Maybe a name something along the
lines of 'comp.sys.very-old-macs' would do the job.

-michael

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