[rescue] Re: [SunHELP] Solaris 9, First thoughts

Dave McGuire mcguire at neurotica.com
Sun Jan 20 09:55:26 CST 2002


On January 20, Joshua D Boyd wrote:
> An imac would be perfect, but decent ones (meaning not first generation) cost
> too much.  But, perhaps a first generation one would be good enough.  I was
> kinda thinking in terms of a pre G3 model.

  The first-gen iMacs are G3/233s...rather respectable hardware, just
not marketed as such.

> The real killer would be software though.  She would insist of MS Office, and
> I also would need to get programs like Photoshop (since the Gimp doesn't work
> on classic MacOS) and Freehand (or is there a corel draw port...).  Not to 
> mention a new graphics tablet (hers is serial) and miscelaneous new 
> accesories.  It's all the other stuff that would be the budget breaker.

  Budget?  People BUY software?  Wow, hadn't heard of that. ;)

     -Dave

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Dave McGuire
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