It's also interesting that one of the main benefactors of Apple back in yhose days was Bill Gates who loaned them a huge amount of money (in excvhange for "considerations", I'm sure). Pete lcSQL Software <http://www.lcsql.com>
On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 8:39 AM, Bob Sneidar <b...@twft.com> wrote: > Imagine the howls if we tried to claim that OS 9 was a better OS for > businesses than Win 7. The Mac would be dead now if not for Steve Jobs and > OS X. Remember that almost every business analyst had Apple dead within 5 > years just before Jobs came in with himself and the OS. Market share had > sunk below 4%. Apples still had Motorola chips! Classic, and all the > incredibly lame attempts of Apple to produce a next generation OS from the > ground up, would have sunk her. > > Bob > > > On May 24, 2012, at 8:29 AM, Richmond wrote: > > > On 05/24/2012 06:14 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: > >> Classic! She was sexy when she was young, but she couldn't keep up with > me. I had to let her go. > > > > Yes, but some of us, ending up with a "love-gift" of several > old-but-in-perfect-working-order G3 iMacs feel it is better to use them > > than shove them in a landfill. > > > > "She couldn't keep up with me"; she could have if that sOXy number > hadn't seduced you away . . . :/ > > > > After all, if we did what we do with our computers with our partners > every 3 or 4 years > > (and, always remember, they might do that with you) there is no knowing > what would happen. > > > >> > >> Bob > >> > >> > >> On May 24, 2012, at 7:28 AM, Richmond wrote: > >> > >>> This is very useful: > >>> > >>> http://www.floodgap.com/software > >>> > >>> for both machines running Mac OS "Classic" versions, > >>> > >>> and for those of us using PPC Mac. > >>> > >>> Richmond. > >>> > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> use-livecode mailing list > >>> use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > >>> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > >>> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> use-livecode mailing list > >> use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > >> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > >> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > use-livecode mailing list > > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
