Trash80toHP_Mini
NIGHT STALKER
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I haven't used Windows for anything serious since I had the 3 in. thick book on Win98 back when the rug rat was going into High School. I tried to make the WinXPh3 install on HP_Mini usable but clung to 9 and my APP base, but it was refreshing to use MSWorks* again. When XPh3 predictably died a gruesome death, ubuntu went on and has been there since, but still hadn't become a daily driver. Though I'd made some progress on using the GIMP and OpenOffice, switching to the VISION powered Pavilion/3G (HP_Maxi) NetBook from Verizon, with its Win7 install, stopped that dead in its tracks.
I'm still using that same production/productivity app suite from Y2K under Native 9.2.2 on the QS'02 because what worked fine then still works great right now. I should say it works better than ever now that the WWW has been corralled on a sneakernetted appliance running a foreign OS for defense in depth against outside attack.
Works for DOS running in SoftPC under 7.0.1* on the PB100, before the release of ClarisWorks, was the cat's meow. Works/DOS had shortcuts every menu command like Alt/F/A for "Save as" when such went missing by design in most Mac apps for years to come. It needed to because it was a Windowed Shell kinda deal for folks who didn't necessarily have a mouse hooked up to their PC or PC Laptop. I'd been using Works/DOS at home on the Tandy1000SX before bringing it to work for my partner's wife to do the billing on for the business. I'd been using Zedcor's DeskPaint, DeskWorks->Desk under 6.0.X on the SE/Radius16, so it was nice to have the same program on my shiny new PB100 as on the 1000SX clunker for bookkeeping. Bookkeeping life got far better yet in 1993, when I had the same rev of ClarisWorks on Win3 PCs in the shop and at home along with the native Mac equivalent on the PB100 and the IIx/Rocket at the shop.
The menu command/command key GUI landscape changed forever with the TrackBall centric UI of the PowerBook 1XX series. It appears to be going through the same kind of thing with a halting switchover to a TouchScreen centric UI model of late.
From the outside, Win8 appears to be Microsoft's attempt to avoid the embarrassment the early 90's side mounted serial interface trackball for WinTel Laptops era.
I've never really used X since giving 10.0.1 a test drive after installing the retail box on a new HDD in the DA, I went right back and continued to use my apps under native 9.whatever on the other drives.Honest question, have you used Mac OS X or did you jump from OS 9.x to Windows and then over to Linux?. . . holding down the mouse button to put away removable media is intuitive?
On Mac OS X, there's at least three ways to eject/dismount/put-away removable media, several of which don't require that you hold the mouse button down at all.
You could, for example...
- Select the media you'd like to put away, then use the keyboard shortcut Command + E
- Right-click (or Option-Click if you do not own a multi-button mouse) on the media and select Eject "$VOLUME_NAME"
- Open a new finder window, scroll down to the media in the left side-bar, and click on the eject button
- Select the media you'd like to put away, then open the File menu, and choose Eject "$VOLUME_NAME".
- Use the Terminal.
I haven't used Windows for anything serious since I had the 3 in. thick book on Win98 back when the rug rat was going into High School. I tried to make the WinXPh3 install on HP_Mini usable but clung to 9 and my APP base, but it was refreshing to use MSWorks* again. When XPh3 predictably died a gruesome death, ubuntu went on and has been there since, but still hadn't become a daily driver. Though I'd made some progress on using the GIMP and OpenOffice, switching to the VISION powered Pavilion/3G (HP_Maxi) NetBook from Verizon, with its Win7 install, stopped that dead in its tracks.
I'm still using that same production/productivity app suite from Y2K under Native 9.2.2 on the QS'02 because what worked fine then still works great right now. I should say it works better than ever now that the WWW has been corralled on a sneakernetted appliance running a foreign OS for defense in depth against outside attack.
Yep, Command-M.Indeed. Some of them didn't make sense at the time, although I haven't used 9 in a long time. The only other one I can remember off the top of my head was that I believe Command+M used to create an alias. I don't think that "clean up desktop" has a keyboard shortcut any more.A lot of keyboard shortcuts were changed when OS X came out.
Works for DOS running in SoftPC under 7.0.1* on the PB100, before the release of ClarisWorks, was the cat's meow. Works/DOS had shortcuts every menu command like Alt/F/A for "Save as" when such went missing by design in most Mac apps for years to come. It needed to because it was a Windowed Shell kinda deal for folks who didn't necessarily have a mouse hooked up to their PC or PC Laptop. I'd been using Works/DOS at home on the Tandy1000SX before bringing it to work for my partner's wife to do the billing on for the business. I'd been using Zedcor's DeskPaint, DeskWorks->Desk under 6.0.X on the SE/Radius16, so it was nice to have the same program on my shiny new PB100 as on the 1000SX clunker for bookkeeping. Bookkeeping life got far better yet in 1993, when I had the same rev of ClarisWorks on Win3 PCs in the shop and at home along with the native Mac equivalent on the PB100 and the IIx/Rocket at the shop.
The menu command/command key GUI landscape changed forever with the TrackBall centric UI of the PowerBook 1XX series. It appears to be going through the same kind of thing with a halting switchover to a TouchScreen centric UI model of late.
From the outside, Win8 appears to be Microsoft's attempt to avoid the embarrassment the early 90's side mounted serial interface trackball for WinTel Laptops era.