It's FUD. The person mentioned had to enter his administrator password and disregard the warning before anything happened, and this is a story recycled from...
... That article was nothing but old news and a spreader of FUD (fear, uncertainty, and doubt). It was a Macintosh hit piece. Lets look a ... No he wasn't....
Randy B. Singer
randy@...
May 1, 2006 6:19 pm
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I must apologize then for sending this. It appeared on the cnn news site. Nancy...
... The story originated at the Associated Press, and appeared on a lot of news sites. See Google's list at: http://tinyurl.com/zvewb Farther down in many of...
... No apology is warrented, Nancy. The whole discussion that resulted was very informative and, dare I say, amusing at times, especially when I read the other...
Nancy, you're always welcome to share what you find. Don't apologize. Sometimes people respond quickly with "I've seen this already," but I'm confident they...
Dear All: My HP Deskjet 930c has shuffled off its mortal coil. It had been working fine in both OS 9 and OS X applications, including our beloved WP. A lot...
Dear Kevin Assuming that you are running 10.4.x, printing is seamless. In Classic, choose laserwriter 8 (ignore the requests for Appletalk) and you print...
Geoff Gilbert
Geoff@...
May 3, 2006 5:53 am
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A lot of HP LaserJets support OS X, you might take a look at those to see if there is one within your price range that will meet your needs, especially if you...
... I have a Brother HL 5150D which has built-in duplexing—a real plus. WP prints beautifully on this printer using the usual command (command-key + "p")....
... If you're using a version of OSX earlier than Tiger, the print driver installer for your new printer may include OS 9 capability, but you may have to...
... "6-page document" ... It's the graphics format/copy/print/ program that accompanies the Microtek 8700 scanner. ... Thanks to you and Steve Kane for the...
I know that a lot of Mac users have been hoping for a way to run Classic on the new Intel-based Macs so that they can purchase a new Mac and continue to use...
Randy B. Singer
randy@...
May 8, 2006 6:17 pm
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Thanks, Randy. It looks complicated, but there's hope. And some swear that 8.1 was the last decent pre-X OS (personally, I thought 8.6 should have had that...
Gilbert, Geoffrey S
Geoff@...
May 8, 2006 9:45 pm
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There were at least 2 versions of WP for Linux. The original one was a variant of WordPerfect for UNIX. WP UNIX is more like WP Mac than WP Windows in...
... I was very impressed with OS 9.2 also. It was stable and it was faster than OS 8. The only downside to it, compared to OS 8, was that it used more RAM. ...
Randy B. Singer
randy@...
May 9, 2006 3:31 am
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... Douglas: Believe it or not (someone chime and correct me) there was a WP version for IBM Mainframes. I do not remember the timeframe but IIRC it was in the...
Not only could you use Basilisk II but there are a few 68000 based Mac emulators for X86 machines (fusion, vmac, Executor) that you could run thru Windows....
If we talkign about obscure Wordperfects. My first experience with WordPerfect was on the Atari ST computer in the late 80's. Does anyone know if there was ...
... WordPerfect ... there was ... Commodore 64? Somewhere around here I have both the 8-bit Apple ][ version, and the 16- bit Apple ][GS version... The ][GS...
... Actually, yes there was, and it's why I've stuck with WP from my Apple IIc to date (although I'm in the process of switching over to Nisus Writer, since WP...
When I started working at SSI (Satellite Software International, which later changed it's name to WordPerfect Corporation) I was on the Apple IIe/c project...
... Believe it or not, yes there was one for the Apple IIe (at least that's what I ran it on.) My dim memory is that I even got it for free because I ...
You bring back memories. I started using WordPerfect when I started using a Mac with OS 6.0.3. I believe it wasWP version 1.0.2. That prompted me to try it on...
Greetings all -- I'm a group member, using WP on an iMac with system 9.2.2 (no, I've never upgraded, mostly because of using lots of older versions of...
Yeah, I had heard that there would be no classic environment on the new ones, so I purposely bought one of the last PPC minis when the intel minis came out....
