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March 29 in Low End Mac History

March 28 - March 30

1999

• Follow up on burnout, Dan Knight, Mac Musings. Low End Mac's publisher deals with burnout.

2000

• Going Wintel for a month, Steve Wood, View From the Classroom. Once a year he has to use Windows. Good thing it's only once a year.
• Are Aqua-skeptics luddites?, Charles Moore, Miscellaneous Ramblings. "I have no interest in change for the sake of change, or in putting form before function, and I really have no time for change that makes things worse."
• Complete PC nut goes Mac, Fred Forney, My First Mac. "I played around with [an LC III] for a couple days, and I was hooked."
• SETI@home: Join a team, Dan Knight, Mac Musings.

2001

• Programming for yourself, Marc Zeedar, My Turn. The author of Z-Write shares the genesis of the world's first nonlinear word processor.
• At the movies, act 2, Matthew Urban, Matt's Mac. How to record and view sound and video on vintage Macs.

2002

• Addicted to old Macs, John C. Foster, My Turn. I know that I have a problem: I am addicted to old Macs. I can't help it.
• The Macworld bonus, Tim Nash, Taking Back the Market. Apple's announcements at Macworld Tokyo should mostly encourage investors, Mac users.
• Do I miss my Mac?, Adam Robert Guha, Apple Archive. A week on a PC - does it make you miss the Mac?
• Touchup paint for TiBooks, new version of Road Tools CoolPad, BookEndz Lombard sale, and more, Charles Moore. TiBook touchup paint, new CoolPad, compact SleeveCase, PB G3 hinge support group, BookEndz, Yellow Dog Linux, bargain 'Books, and more.

2004

• What a long strange trip back to Pismo, Kevin Webb, The Mac Webb. The 15" and 12" G4 PowerBooks were nice, but the old Pismo is the PowerBook that seems just right.
• Mozilla for the classic Mac OS and more reasons Mac users still use IE, Charles Moore, Miscellaneous Ramblings. WaMCom brings Mozilla to Mac OS 8.6-9.2, and sometimes Internet Explorer is the only solution.

2006

• 6 extensions to make Firefox even better, Leaman Crews, Plays Well with Others. Improve Firefox with everything from web developer tools to nuking unwanted ads, from faster page loads to knowing the weather.

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