🚀 go-pugleaf

Alan Frame <alan.frame@acm.org> wrote:

> Rebecca and Rowland <real-address-in-sig@flur.bltigibbet> wrote:
> > Alan Frame <alan.frame@acm.org> wrote:
> []
> > > [1] yes, still the old Q660AV - *finally* upgraded from 7.6.1
> > > tonight.[3]
> > 
> > What's System 8 like on it?  (thinks: I have a Performa 475 with a 14
> > inch monitor, and I was just wondering if there's any great benefit of 8
> > over 7.6.1)
> 
> Well I mainly went for the upgrade to get the new(ish) Remote Access,
> Location Manager 2 and some AppleScripting capabilites - the rest is
> just eye candy - I don't do much serious stuff on that(this) machine.
> 
> 'cos my Q660AV has "only"[1] got a half gig drive, I've not bothered
> with HFS+, but I'd recommend it for all '040 or later machines with more
> than, say, 20 megs of RAM.[2]

Righto.  I've got 20MByte, so I suppose that puts me right on the
borderline.  The one thing I'm not keen on is losing ClickThereItIs!
which apparently doesn't work with the OS8 Finder and I'm not sure if
there's a suitable replacement.

Well, I was using 7.1 until last year and I've got a Mac Plus behind me;
I've never felt the *need* to have the latest toys (but it is nice
sometimes).

> Oh, I threw out my 1988 vintage "Programmers Key" extension when I
> installed Sys 8.1 - I thought that would be chancing it *too* much.

:-)

> rgds, Alan
> [1] I'm sure I paid an extra 300 quid when I bought it to get that
> rather than the standard 160Mb disk...

Eek!

> [2] Despite that, I have been installing 7.6.1 on users work machines in
> the office recently 'cos I can't be bothered with the full hassle of 8 -
> and that's only to get a decent TC/PIP OT so I can install a real mail
> system.

Hmm.  I see.

Ta,
Rowland.

(<happy dance>  Have you seen that uk.comp.sys.mac yet?  Dead good it
is, honest.)

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