LOL! And Nisus 3 (but 4.6 -- I think it was -- was the one I stuck
with for a long, long time) ran in RAM so it went like lightning. I
think it was in v.4 that Nisus tore itself to shreds to introduce the
voice that read your document to you, wasn't it? I didn't need it
then but I do now (and I've got it in NWP).
Oh -- and printers actually worked when you plugged them in rather
than you having to go through all sorts of hoops to make them work.
And the OS didn't have a native type menu manager -- and still hasn't
in X.6.8.
Boy -- that clacking sound! Early on I bought a silent, very soft
touch 84 key keyboard -- called PC Bridge or something. Incredibly,
it didn't sell, and disappeared off the market about the same time as
the beige box gave way to gray. It was the best computer keyboard
I've ever had bar none (including the latest examples).
Regardless -- I use outlining a lot and NWP 2 does the job pretty
well -- much better than NW 6.5. Occasionally it gets a little
confused with numbering when I move a head around, but by and large
it's fine.
Mind you -- back in the day I had the peerless MORE v.3.1 to work
with. Now *there* was a tool . . .
I suppose between Nisus and MORE I had the best writing tools ever. I
also had a lot less to loo k backwards to then. :(
Cheers, geoff
At 6:52 PM +1000 16/9/11, Alan Dow wrote:
>Yeahbut your Plan B still won't get back your NW4 documents in their
>former glory, and everything back of NW6.5 will be lost 4eva.
>Unless of course, we can convince philistines such as yourself,
>Brian Ferguson, and the entire Nisus developer team, that the
>shining lights of the past should not be replaced by the glaring
>examples of the present.
>
>Just ask James May ( http://tinyurl.com/3j2pcak ), a true
>connoisseur who understands that his LNER Class A3 4472 Flying
>Scotsman model train engine - "with realistic chuffing sound" - has
>no equal.
>Likewise, proper computers have ADB ports allowing an Apple Extended
>Keyboard II - "with realistic clacking sound" - to be connected.
>(And what's more, they can run Nisus 3 under System 6 off a single
>floppy.)
>
>I rest my case.. AD
>
>
>At 4:40 PM +1000 16/9/11, Geoffrey Heard wrote:
>>Anything labelled "Wall Street" is the dark ages, Alan! :D
>>
>>Plan B is to go on eBay and buy a used 2010 MacBook Pro 13" (or 15"
>>if you're feeling extravagant) running X.6.x -- as I did.
>>
>>Cheers, geoff
>>
>>At 3:01 PM +1000 16/9/11, Alan Dow wrote:
>>>Does a 1998 Wallstreet running X.4.11 count as a machine of the 'dark ages'?
>>>(I prefer to think of it as 'classical antiquity'.)
>>>
>>>I guess Plan B now for for those of us in our dotage, is to
>>>request improved document translation between old and new?
>>>
>>>Commiserations.. AD
>>>
>>>============
>>>At 5:28 PM -0600 15/9/11, Andrus wrote:
>>>>
>>>>Am I the only one in the dark ages on a 5-year-old system? :-)
>>>>
>>>> Ben Andrus
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