LikesOldMacsJun 30, 2023

Some of you weren't convinced Word 6 is the best. So we shall conduct a battery of unscientific tests. I've culled the comments for all WP programs - any missing? (See the screen on the right - and keep in mind we are going for '040 mid-90s compatibility)

The PB190 (no color!) seems like the perfect test subject - the last '040 and grayscale laptop from Apple, which surely saw word processing as its primary use.

Show threadLikesOldMacsJul 7, 2023

Almost ready for launch! Took everyone's comments (thank you!!) into account and just have to redownload/re-find a few that wouldn't install right.

Installing all of these gave us SO MANY fonts it actually clogged up some of the lighter WP programs 😅

Show threadNathanJul 7, 2023

@likesoldmacs
Ah, the Launcher. I miss the Launcher. 🤓
Wasn't it possible to put folders, with a bullet as the first character of the file-name, in the "Launcher Items" folder, to have different tabbed categories in there?

I used to do a web one, productivity, games, etc. Was such a cool system, yet so easy to set-up.
👍

Show threadPierreNick  💾Jul 7, 2023

@nathan @likesoldmacs I miss the 'click' sound of the launcher!

(Even though now I hate any sound produced by a computer other than music I play)

Show threadNathanJul 7, 2023
@pierrenick @likesoldmacs
If you're using a Classic Mac, the occasional "click" sound, and either "tink" or "sosumi" alert sounds are acceptable.
😎
Show threadPierreNick  💾Jul 7, 2023
@nathan @likesoldmacs Haha yep agreed, I was thinking of this while typing that last line. Eep!
Show threadLikesOldMacsJul 7, 2023
@pierrenick @nathan I haven't used the launcher in so long it was such a fun surprise!!
Show threadMetalSnake
@likesoldmacs @pierrenick @nathan the Launcher was really nice. But it feels like everyone moved to #DragThing when Launcher got too full with icons. I wish I could make the Dock more like DragThing.
Jul 7, 2023 at 6:05amWeb
Show threadNathanJul 7, 2023

@metalsnake @likesoldmacs @pierrenick
I was supporting University Macs at the time, so we stuck with the Launcher on everything I saw. (I don't remember seeing any customers using Drag Thing.. but it was a long time ago.) 😄

I did get into Drag Thing in the early MacOS X days. Like a lot of people, I wasn't entirely happy with the Dock. 🤔 I think I slowly moved away from it as I started using spotlight more for launching apps. (And to try to stay familiar with solutions our customers were on.)

Show threadPierreNick  💾Jul 7, 2023
@nathan @metalsnake @likesoldmacs I remember Assimilator the most on college Macs. 
Show threadNathanJul 8, 2023

@pierrenick @metalsnake @likesoldmacs
For some reason I'd got it into my head that we used Assimilator on OS-X. But no. We were using it to re-image our Wallstreet loan laptops. I think we moved to using RadMind to re-image OS-X laptops.

Prior to that, with our PowerBook 190's we were booting off a SCSI hard-drive, wiping the internal drive, dragging the contents of a folder containing our 'standard' image, then blessing and booting off of that.

It worked really well, with a small OS. 😄