[Rhodes22-list] NAV software on Mac / was Ols Mac &PCs

[L. Sailor]

Lou,I think you're referring to 'The Capt'n"....I believe that was what we had just bought right before the bottom dropped out...returned it unused....
   
  elle
   
  I have the catalog at home ..I may have messed up the name but can get the correct name when I get home later....

Lou Rosenberg <steadilsr at verizon.net> wrote:
  

Is any one on this list using
NAV software that can run on the MAC?

Lou



On Oct 28, 2006, at 1:44 PM, Joseph Hadzima wrote:

> Hi
>
> Speaking of early computers, did anyone read "Byte"
> magazine in the 80's?
>
> I found it interesting that the big add on devices were
> made for the Apple computers.
>
> First came a Z80 card - which replaced the 6502 processor
> so people could run a non-apple OS called CPM. Why you ask?
> Because more softeware was available for CPM based
> machines.
>
> Later, came something called the MacCharlie - which was
> another silly device to convert a Mac so it would run M/S
> DOS, and also all the available programs.
>
> This year Apple announced that they were converting from
> the PowerPC processor to Intel (the same used in the PC).
>
>
> What a long strange trip it's been!
>
> joe/hadz
>
>
> --- Bill Effros wrote:
>
>> Philip,
>>
>> We went through this while you were off list. My partner
>> bought Apple
>> II serial number 1935. Floppy drives were $500 extra.
>> You loaded the
>> machine operating system and programs with cassette
>> tapes, from cassette
>> players with audio outputs (cassette players not
>> provided.) I believe
>> they came with 8K of memory, and there was jubilation
>> around the office
>> when we upgraded (at great expense) to 16K.
>>
>> The original PCs also were available without floppy
>> drives. I still
>> have an original PC-DOS on a cassette tape. We bought
>> IBMs stripped
>> down, and added memory, drives, etc. and sold them for
>> 1/2 what IBM was
>> selling them for--and double what all the parts cost us.
>> This was
>> illegal, and IBM sent the Feds after everyone doing this.
>> (By Federal
>> Law PCs had to be licensed by the FCC to ensure their
>> radiation was
>> within proscribed limits.)
>>
>> Most of us just tried to keep our heads down, but many
>> were driven out
>> of business.
>>
>> Michael Dell was doing this in Texas at the same time we
>> were doing it
>> in NY and California. He hired lawyers, stalled, and
>> repeatedly broke
>> the law. It turned out well for him.
>>
>> Bill Effros
>>
>
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