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To: Star Traveler; itsahoot; VanDeKoik
When I bought my first Mac, it came with productivity tools (MacDraw, MacWrite, MacPaint), and worked right out of the box. The cabling was all clearly labeled with icons to help connect everything up.

I had a FatMac, with an internal 5meg HyperDrive, and used MacDraft as my biggest tool. I set up my first Mac and printed a rough floor plan within a half hour of getting it out of the box! Of course, I printed it on a 24-pin ImageWriter, which I later replaced with an SE and an HP Inkjet. I was (almost) in heaven!!!

These days, I have a home network using different iterations (Intel, PPC) and different OS's (OS9, 0SX 10.4, .5, .6.2) with a G4 340 as a server. I don't play games, but do have Windoze so I can use the only MS product I like... Flight Simulator X. I still used the old one which worked up until Mac Sys 8, but with the intel chip, can use the modern product...


21 posted on 12/08/2009 1:35:50 PM PST by WVKayaker (www.wherezobama.org / Obama's Excellent Adventure ...)
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To: WVKayaker
You were saying ...

Flight Simulator X. I still used the old one which worked up until Mac Sys 8, but with the intel chip, can use the modern product...

I fiddled around with the Mac version of Flight Simulator back then. I even remember crashing into the World Trade Towers a few times when "flying" over New York... ooops...

Apparently I wasn't the only one with that idea...

22 posted on 12/08/2009 1:41:35 PM PST by Star Traveler (The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob is a Zionist and Jerusalem is the apple of His eye.)
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To: WVKayaker

It looks like you’re getting 29 frames per second, flying over dense city? What kind of hardware it FSX running on there?


33 posted on 12/08/2009 3:36:12 PM PST by Big Giant Head (Running my computer bare naked for over a year with no infections at all.)
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