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.
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. ;-)
It seems as though the question is the number of users who will use the group. Given the (mostly) less than useful responses to 68k Mac questions in the Mac groups, I'd say the numbers are pretty high. If we apply the same logic to /// users here, I'd guess we'd have between five and 10 /// users.
Back to the original question. Doesn't Google archive newsgroups back to the early '80s? Perhaps searching the archives might be useful.
Later Mike Byron Winmill wrote:
The idea of starting a legacy Macintosh newsgroup has certainly popped up in the past. Try searching for the subject "Proposed group addition" in csa2 to get an overview of the issues, then you bump into the dynamics of usenet (which few users, myself included, seem to understand). But it all comes down to this: there is very little agreement as to where the Apple ///, Lisa, 68k, and (increasingly) early PPC users belong. Do we belong in comp.sys.apple2 or comp.sys.mac? In terms of architecture, the latter makes sense. In terms of culture, the former makes sense. This really should be evident from how many of us integrate both the Apple II and older Macintosh computers into our projects. Byron. On Fri, 27 Sep 2002, GGGNH wrote:You could always start a comp.sys.mac.68k or comp.sys.mac.classic newsgroup, if you feel there is a great need.
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