February 19 in Low End Mac History

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Feb. 18 - Feb. 20

1999

Buying an iMac, Evan Kleiman, Mac Happens. The pros and cons of buying locally vs. mail order.

2000

The social Internet, Dan Knight, Mac Musings. "Rather than fearing the Internet, the Stanford Institute for the Quantitative Study of Society should look at how people interact socially because of the Internet."

2001

Not the end of the Mac as we know it, Dan Knight, Mac Musings. "I must respectfully disagree with Adam Robert Guha.... The Mac as we know it has a long life ahead of it."
WordPerfect feedback and addenda, Charles Moore, Miscellaneous Ramblings. Mail about Word Perfect, Seagate drives, quiet fans, cat haters, control freaks, and toilet paper.
Mac network appliance: Making your own MP3 server, Jonathan Ploudre, Back & Forth. How to set up an older Mac to serve MP3 files over your computer network.

2002

OS X and the future of Linux, Steve Watkins, The Practical Mac. Some claim that OS X dooms Linux; I believe it renews Linux.
I shall call it Mini Mac!, Eric Schwarz, The Power of Mac. The Palm as a Mac-like personal digital assistant.
Low-end Macs work better, longer, and cheaper, Sheldon Jaffe, My First Mac. "The most I've paid for any machine was $700, and I don't regret any of the purchases."
The many Macs of Evan Kleiman, Evan Kleiman, Tools of the Trade. Three years' worth of "new to me" Macs.

2003

Claris Home Page 3.0: Still irreplaceable?, Dan Knight, Mac Musings. Claris Home Page is five years old and doesn't support modern Web standards - can it sell be the best tool for the job?
Macs in schools: A personal horror story, Stephen Van Esch, Mac Scope. Is the IT department really this clueless, or are they deliberately sabotaging the second graders' Macs?
ATI Radeon trade up program, yet more on Intel and other CPUs, and step-by-step overclocking of a beige G3, Dan Knight, Low End Mac Mailbag. Get $50 back when you buy a new ATI card, a lengthy discussion of the Pentium 4 and other CPUs, and how to change the CPU speed in a beige G3.

2007

3 MacMice mice compared: 2 winners, 1 loser, Charles Moore, Miscellaneous Ramblings. MacMice products are well-designed and hold up well over time, but their Bluetooth mouse is poorly balanced and suffers from latency problems.
30 days of old school computing: Getting real work done, Ted Hodges, Vintage Mac Living. Personal computers were invented so we could get more work done and be more productive. Doesn't all the eye candy and multimedia just get in the way?
After Dark reborn? Bringing back the darkness, Tommy Thomas, Welcome to Macintosh. As After Dark approaches its 20th anniversary, perhaps it's time to resurrect the greatest screen saver of all time.

Feb. 18 - Feb. 20

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