Got nuthin'....

[Alasdair Lawrance]

I haven't had any updates since December '23.

Has no-one got anything to say?

Alasdair Lawrance
alawr...@me.com

Don’t blame me, I voted Remain.

[Dilip Rathod]

Hi Alasdair 😊

 

Dilip.

 

 

 

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[Ben]

It has been quiet here.

Happy New Year!

🥳

[Robert Sharl]

Hi both, and all you other lurkers too!

It’s actually nice to see something pop into the mailbox from the MMUGers, and makes a pleasant change from all of the junk mail that other lists seem to send out. 

I was just thinking about the MMUG last week, and how much has changed in the world of Mac since this list and the old meetings started. It would be great to hear some stories about the journey we’ve all been on, and what different folk are up to these days. 

Maybe we should gather some of these stories together—how long has the list/group been in existence now?

Robert

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[Dilip Rathod]

“Maybe we should gather some of these stories together—how long has the list/group been in existence now?”

 

 

Must be 20 years now ?

 

Dilip.

 

 

 

 

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[Gmail]

I guess it’s all ‘just working’😊

Sent from my iPhone

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[Ben]

mmug.org.uk was registered on 27th Feb 2002, so yeah it has been a while.

I have no idea what Mac I was using in 2002, possibly something G4 based. I'm now on a Mac Studio - that's quite a difference! 

[Dilip Rathod]

 

I think my daily driver then was one of these – PowerBook G4 Titanium – “An elegant weapon for a more civilized age." 😊

 

Dilip.

 

 

 

From: 'Ben' via MMUG Chat <mmug...@googlegroups.com>
Date: Tuesday, 26 March 2024 at 11:05 AM
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Subject: Re: [MMUG] Got nuthin'....

mmug.org.uk was registered on 27th Feb 2002, so yeah it has been a while.

 

I have no idea what Mac I was using in 2002, possibly something G4 based. I'm now on a Mac Studio - that's quite a difference! 

 

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[Robert Sharl]

On 26 Mar 2024, at 11:16, Dilip Rathod <di...@nativesystems.co.uk> wrote:

I think my daily driver then was one of these – PowerBook G4 Titanium – “An elegant weapon for a more civilized age.”

😊

Lovely!  I’d moved pretty much fully portable with the 1999 PowerBook G3 (that still works!) and then moved through the second-gen (white) iBook and eventually onto the PBG4 12” in 2003. Back in my studio at the Custard Factory I was still running a bunch of PowerMac G4s (graphite ones, with a blue+white LCD Studio Display) and a couple of iMac DV models.

These days I’m also a Mac Studio user (M1 Ultra and Studio Display), and very happy with it!

Robert

[David Cooper]

I had a PowerBook G4 Titanium followed by a Mac Book Pro. The batterie in both lasted long enough to be no longer available from Apple.

Regards. Dave Cooper.

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[Jack Moore]

Hi there good to see some posts! I was first introduced to Macs around 2006 when my daughter went to study Art at Goldsmiths and told me to I had to buy her a Mac. I was incredulous but gave in of course! But I carried on with my Dell until it crashed in 2008 and I lost all my data. Not great for a nascent business! So after a few ‘ told you sos ‘ I got my first Mac and I joined the group. 

In those days Macs ‘couldn’t be hacked’ 

Basically there not enough around. That’s all changed now so we have to pay for Malwarebytes, VPNs etc to keep us safe. That’s ok with me but I wish Apple would focus less on cosmetic features with their too numerous OS updates Regards

jack

On 26 Mar 2024, at 12:36, 'David Cooper' via MMUG Chat <mmug...@googlegroups.com> wrote:

I had a PowerBook G4 Titanium followed by a Mac Book Pro. The batterie in both lasted long enough to be no longer available from Apple.

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[Gmail]

I’ve got an old iMac that can only run Snow Leopard. I fire it up occasionally to remind myself what a stable OS looks like. One that works and doesn’t have all the bells and whistles that most people don’t use

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Hi there good to see some posts! I was first introduced to Macs around 2006 when my daughter went to study Art at Goldsmiths and told me to I had to buy her a Mac. I was incredulous but gave in of course! But I carried on with my Dell until it crashed in 2008 and I lost all my data. Not great for a nascent business! So after a few ‘ told you sos ‘ I got my first Mac and I joined the group. 

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[Robert Sharl]

> On 26 Mar 2024, at 17:40, Gmail <squire...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> I’ve got an old iMac that can only run Snow Leopard. I fire it up occasionally to remind myself what a stable OS looks like. One that works and doesn’t have all the bells and whistles that most people don’t use

While I very much like (and use) the latest system updates, Snow Leopard certainly has a special place in my heart! The last version to ship on a disk, I recently saw a pristine boxed and unopened copy for £20..

I’m finding Sonoma pretty stable and very useful. Seems we’re in the stability+polish phase again, for now. Let’s hope it lasts!

Robert

[Gmail]

Unless you’re running Java(my printer app uses that and stopped working. Hopefully fixed in 14.4.1
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[Robert Sharl]

> On 26 Mar 2024, at 17:57, Gmail <squire...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Unless you’re running Java(my printer app uses that and stopped working. Hopefully fixed in 14.4.1

Argh! I despair that printer makers are using Java apps in 2024, but I feel for you.

[Gmail]

It’s an old Brother colour printer. I can use the printers and scanners panel in settings to do most things so it’s not terminal. Amd it works fine after the update
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>> On 26 Mar 2024, at 17:57, Gmail <squire...@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Unless you’re running Java(my printer app uses that and stopped working. Hopefully fixed in 14.4.1
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> Argh! I despair that printer makers are using Java apps in 2024, but I feel for you.
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[Richard Turnbull]

Well, what a flurry of news and reminiscence. My wife started with a Mac laptop in about 2008, which fixed the problems with me being asked endlessly for technical fixes on her PC. I started with an iMac in 2010 and have not looked back. Currently just with a MacBook Air 2018 and finding it beginning to run out of steam - mainly not enough memory - only 8Gb. More problems coming from my wife's machine recently but then if you are on the 103rd new document on Word, I would expect it to begin to forget where it’s stack is kept. Mac stability good.

Richard

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[Patrick Neame]

Mac Quadra 800 around 1993/94.


Patrick Neame

> On 26 Mar 2024, at 20:30, 'Richard Turnbull' via MMUG Chat <mmug...@googlegroups.com> wrote:
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> Well, what a flurry of news and reminiscence. My wife started with a Mac laptop in about 2008, which fixed the problems with me being asked endlessly for technical fixes on her PC. I started with an iMac in 2010 and have not looked back. Currently just with a MacBook Air 2018 and finding it beginning to run out of steam - mainly not enough memory - only 8Gb. More problems coming from my wife's machine recently but then if you are on the 103rd new document on Word, I would expect it to begin to forget where it’s stack is kept. Mac stability good.

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[Benjamin Stanley]

Oh I loved the Quadra series

My dad remortgaged the house to buy a desk, video camera and a Quadra 840AV with Geoport (modem) back in 1993 - that was the first year of Trilby! I think he may have bought it from Dilip 😃

Before that, we’d been an LCII home and way back to Mac Plus with many in between.

The Quadra 840 had a long life, for quite a while it ran becomm.net a Birmingham Electronic Community bulletin board…. wow the things we got up to eh!

Mactracker is a lovely app for looking back! 

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[Patrick Neame]

We were at the cutting edge of the digital revolution in photography at the Birmingham Post and Mail. In 1993 we were still shooting film but scanning to the Quadras, then in 1995/96 we got digital SLRs, a huge brick of electronics attached to a Nikon. 

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[Dilip Rathod]

In 1993, I was working at The Apple Education Centre (for Second City Systems) based in The Students Guild at Aston Uni.

 

Yes, I think you did buy it from me – I recall a teenage Ben Stanley coming in with Tony !

 

Speaking of Mac LC (Elsie) series, I had a client call me several years ago wanting to buy another Mac from me. There was nothing wrong with the LC475 that he’d bought from me 17 years earlier and it was still in daily use ! He was an author so only used it for writing in ClarisWorks/AppleWorks and nothing else.

 

A Jazz musician client came to see me yesterday and still uses his MacBook Pro 17” that he bought from me 16 years ago – he uses it for an older version of Logic.

 

A few weeks ago, a printer client rang me up to say that his Mac Pro (cheesegrater) still in daily use had a fuzzy screen. The one he bought from me 16 years ago ! ‘is it still under warranty ?’ he jokingly asked. A new £99 video card and it was working fine again.

 

So what is the oldest Mac that you know of in daily use ?

 

Dilip.

 

 

 

 

 

From: 'Benjamin Stanley' via MMUG Chat <mmug...@googlegroups.com>
Date: Tuesday, 26 March 2024 at 9:38 PM
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Subject: Re: [MMUG] Got nuthin'....

Oh I loved the Quadra series

My dad remortgaged the house to buy a desk, video camera and a Quadra 840AV with Geoport (modem) back in 1993 - that was the first year of Trilby! I think he may have bought it from Dilip 😃

 

Before that, we’d been an LCII home and way back to Mac Plus with many in between.

 

The Quadra 840 had a long life, for quite a while it ran becomm.net a Birmingham Electronic Community bulletin board…. wow the things we got up to eh!

BeComm, The Birmingham Electronic Community web.archive.org

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