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John Cruet
Joined: 30 Apr 2004
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Location: Guilford, CT
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 Posted: Fri Sep 19, 2008 2:11 pm Post subject: OT- The Old and the New |
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On my left is my PowerBook 190, running PowerDraw 5.
On my right is my MacBook Pro, running PowerCadd 8.
The 190, bought in 1993, is still running! To think I designed projects on this thing is truly amazing.
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G4/733 w/1028 mb RAM & OS 10.4.10, Classic-free, skuzzy-free (runs PC7)
MacBook Pro 2G Intel core duo 2 gig RAM & OS 10.5.4.
PowerCadd 8, WT 9
Canon iP710 printer
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patrickm
Joined: 13 Apr 2004
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Location: santa barbara, ca
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| Posted: Fri Sep 19, 2008 3:20 pm Post subject: Re: OT- The Old and the New |
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| John Cruet wrote: | On my left is my PowerBook 190, running PowerDraw 5.
On my right is my MacBook Pro, running PowerCadd 8.
The 190, bought in 1993, is still running! To think I designed projects on this thing is truly amazing.
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When I originally used PowerDraw, I had a 17" monitor. Later, I switched to a Bronze Lombard PowerBook, which had about the same real estate due to increased resolution. When 17" PowerBooks came out, I bought one and was amazed at how much more real estate the screen had due to its higher resolution. Likewise, I was amazed when I went to the 17" MacBook Pro with even higher resolution. Now I use a 30" monitor and when I open one of the old plans drawn on the PowerBook, I feel like I am looking at a view through a face mask. |
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Peter Severin Carlsen
Joined: 29 Oct 2004
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Location: St. Paul, Minnesota
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| Posted: Fri Sep 19, 2008 3:51 pm Post subject: |
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The trouble is that all those old computers still work. I sold the Lisa on which I ran Power Draw 1.5 or 2 last winter. It was a learning curve, moving from drawings on boards where you could see everything to small screens which zoomed in on bits and pieces. The 13" screens for the Mac II were pretty amazing. And I still used it for details printed onto sticky back, pasted on a sheet of vellum.
Although I've moved up to newer computers and later versions of the software, I still find that the version a bit back did most of what I need on computers that just don't die. Sometimes I wonder why we've spent all the money keeping up so that we get a program that no longer can zoom about a mouse click, and other small things long forgotten.
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John Cruet
Joined: 30 Apr 2004
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Location: Guilford, CT
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I currently run dual monitors with the MacBook Pro. I run a 19 inch Acer LCD monitor in extended desktop mode.
With the PB 190, I got an 8 bit color graphics card and hooked up a remote monitor. I ran that in mirror mode.
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John Cruet
G4/733 w/1028 mb RAM & OS 10.4.10, Classic-free, skuzzy-free (runs PC7)
MacBook Pro 2G Intel core duo 2 gig RAM & OS 10.5.4.
PowerCadd 8, WT 9
Canon iP710 printer
www.johncruet.com |
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