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pdplot said:
Tempting. My brother in VA has been a MAC user for years. But - both my laptop and desktop were new last year. Hard to justify a new purchase. Plus all my docs are set in Word and Excel and I don't know if they will translate to a MAC.
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I can understand not wanting to switch if you have new PCs. But, if you do consider it someday, you should know that MS Office is available in MAC versions (I know I have it) and also, the new iMacs and MacBooks can run both MAC OS and Windows together. I have MAC OS and Windows 7 installed on my MAC. If I want to run Windows, I have two ways to do it. If I hold down the Option keep when I power on, it will bring up two icons, one for MAC and one for Windows. I can choose which one I want to boot into. This is done using BootCamp which comes standard with the MAC OS. Also, If I want to I can actually run both MAC OS and Windows simultaneously with a 3rd party application called "Parallels". With that program, I boot up in MAC OS, then run Parallels and boot into Windows. It's really cool because, with a swipe of my track pad I can quickly switch between MAC and Windows and even share files between the two.
 
pdplot said:
Tempting. My brother in VA has been a MAC user for years. But - both my laptop and desktop were new last year. Hard to justify a new purchase. Plus all my docs are set in Word and Excel and I don't know if they will translate to a MAC.
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https://www.openoffice.org/porting/mac/faq/installing/ooo.html

I use openoffice on some of my PC's, and I would bet if you had your docs or docxs in openoffice they would transfer right over.

I had an issue with an old version of MS Office, started using openoffice, found it to be MORE comprehensive (languages, too), and when I got the new 8 laptop several years ago, even before I made it into XP-8, or loaded 8.1 Pro, I found the icon for Office went to the MS Store, who asked me what version I wanted and how much was I willing to spend?
Delete the icon, remove the MS Store function, load openoffice, and all is well with the world.

I still hate eight.

Opinion.
 
TOC said:
https://www.openoffice.org/porting/mac/faq/installing/ooo.html

I use openoffice on some of my PC's, and I would bet if you had your docs or docxs in openoffice they would transfer right over.

I had an issue with an old version of MS Office, started using openoffice, found it to be MORE comprehensive (languages, too), and when I got the new 8 laptop several years ago, even before I made it into XP-8, or loaded 8.1 Pro, I found the icon for Office went to the MS Store, who asked me what version I wanted and how much was I willing to spend?
Delete the icon, remove the MS Store function, load openoffice, and all is well with the world.

I still hate eight.

Opinion.
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I had heard that Open Office was closing up shop.
 
Hadn't heard that...but once you load it, you have it. Since I don't do any updates whatsoever (when you use older programs, the last thing you want is an update that doesn't work) you will still have it.
Apache owns it now..cannot imagine them getting out of it, but who knows.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenOffice.org


Apparently Sun gave it to Apache in 2011. Looks like it's still going strong.
 
Libre forked away years ago and has been building independently since then. I've been using Libre since Fedora 15, about 5 years.
 
wellllll....since I eschew newer stuff and persist in making older stuff work.....I have openoffice, and I'll just keep using it in the PC's I have. I suppose if I had a frontal lobotomy and had to get a new computer with a new OS (joke) and my stash of XP discs with license keys wouldn't work, I'd do Libre if openoffice was NLA.
And it's not a joke that I have a stash of XP discs, 32 and 64 bit, with license keys, just in case.
 
I mean....look at the forum we are using.
We keep carburettors functional, generators working, manual chokes, in some cases drum brakes....points for crying out loud....and it's probably safe to discuss operating systems and add-ons that are only (best case) 1/4 as old as our newest cars.....
 
My wife calls me a Pack Rat! I still have a box full of 5.5 floppies, a box full of 3.5s and players for them both. Windows 3.1 on 13 floppy discs, every licensed Windows edition etc, etc. I tried throwing them in the trash a couple times, but I thought when all this new stuff go kaput, I can go back to the old stuff and start over! :highly_amused: PJ
 
Sort of where I am, altho I keep 95 around for grins, I will keep XP going...one of these days folks will wake up to what Redmond is stealing from them with their telemetry and cloud, and XP will look mighty tempting to a lot of folks.
I am fairly prepared with this system fully imaged with Macrium Reflect on a 2.1TB external hard drive that is NOT kept plugged into the system.
User Agent Switcher really works well for those news sites (that isn't political, is it?) that REFUSE to let you in with old OS and browsers.
 
Ah, the pre-internet days. Only way I could "connect" was using a dial up modem.

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No graphics - just text and numbers. And the 4 MHz processor was *fast*!
 
NutmegCT said:
Ah, the pre-internet days. Only way I could "connect" was using a dial up modem.

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No graphics - just text and numbers. And the 4 MHz processor was *fast*!
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I used to operate a dial up "Bulletin Board" for sharing "Shareware" It was pretty popular in its day. Actually had 4 phone lines with 4 US Robotics modems.
 
Watching a rerun of QI Stephen Fry pulled out a 1k memory module from the mid 60s. To replicate the memory he had in the micro SD card he also had would, apparently, taken up the space occupied by between three and four large aircraft carriers!
 
My first experience with real computers was 1970. SINS (Ships Inertial Navigation System). Mk3 Mod6 Sperry.
Drum memory was the biggie...but RAM (or what we now call RAM) was a "core stack" back then.
I am trying to be specific...but the box was 8" long, 4" high, and 4" wide.....hand wound torroidal coils...and it was 4K. NOT 4M, but 4K.
I have had one person tell me they were 8K, but I still have the manuals...and unless his system on his boat had a ShipAlt to upgrade that core unit, they were 4K.
My 2.1TB External Hard Drive sitting beside me is 1/2 the size.
 
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