[geeks] Macs

[Peter L. Wargo]

On Sunday, January 6, 2002, at 05:04 , Jon Still wrote:

> I've gotta admit I love OS X.  My Christmas present to myself was a 
> shiny new iBook 600 and I've not looked back.  I'm currently enthusing 
> about Stickies - I love the ability to just select text and press 
> Apple-Shift-Y to create a sticky note from it.  Add to that the

<Puts on his "Professor Mac" hat>

Just to make you sound more "Mac-wise", the key with the weird 
cloverleaf symbol (as well as the apple symbol) is referred to as the 
"Command" key.

<Takes off "Professor Mac" hat>

Cool, I never knew that.  Doesn't seem to work while I'm editing in 
mail.  I too, am enjoying the cool goodies in OS X.

> fact that I got it to print to my "unsupported" Laserjet 1100 via LPD 
> on my Linux box (a bit of tinkering in Netinfo combined with 
> ghostscript) and I'm a happy bunny :)

Nifty.

> My only real concern I had before buying it was whether I would be able 
> to use it as a serial terminal, which if I ever did any contracting 
> would be something I would likely need to do.  However after my fiance 
> very generously donated her Keyspan PDA adaptor, this was no trouble at 
> all :)

So OS X recognized it with no trouble?  Cool, as I have been wanting to 
do something similar with my iBook SE.  Do you use tip, or a MacOS 
program?

> Incidentally, we put together a little page on using macs (especially 
> old macs) as serial terminals at 
> http://www.tertial.org/projects/mac-console/  Can't beat a nice clacky 
> Mac Plus keyboard :)

Which is why I have one (A Plus), as well as a few others. :-)  (I 
literally wore my 512Ke out many years back...)  Nice site, I now feel 
like digging out my plus and getting to work... :-)

-Pete