• Introduction

    From Ed Vance@21:1/175 to vaelen on Tuesday, March 12, 2024 19:24:58
    Howdy! Valean,
    I'm W9ODR in Indiana, long ago was in US Navy and visited Tokyo once whiwe le Ship was in Yokosuka.
    Didn't go to the Ginza(?), me and a Super Chief went downtown to shop and eat.

    Other interests are photography and Bible study.

    A friend had version 6.11 CD of The Online Bible that I borrowed and there was a Mac install on it as well as DOS and Windows (pardon my language
    . . . . . . )

    I knew a person that owned an original MacIntosh PC, the AIO Model with the 3.5" floppy slot below the monitor.
    The Mac belonged to his wife but he wanted to read the Bible on her Computer.

    In the early 1990's I visited a Apple Store to see if I would be interested in buying one.
    Back then my PC was a C=64 and I was trying to decide whether to get an Apple ][ or Clone computer.

    I knew several Hams who owned a MacIntosh and while in the Apple Store (BTW the Store had a Private owner, it wasn't owned by Apple Corp.)
    I asked to try a MAC. After some minutes I asked Salesman "How do I get to BASIC on this? He told me BASIC is an Option and it costs $200.00 more than the price for the MAC.

    I thanked him and left the Store.

    Now back to my installation of the OLB on their MAC:
    From the OLB CD I had put the MAC Version on a bunch of 3.5" floppies.
    I remembered after what was on a disk finished, to remove it to insert another disk I was told to drag it onto the TRASH Icon because there wasn't a Button alongside the Drive slot.
    Because I have used a PC Clone at work, the idea of Trashing a disk seemed radical to me

    Anyhow after all of the floppies had been installed, the family could use that Program.
    At least the MAC didn't crash while my hands were on it.

    While typing this I thought of a procedure to Enlarge or Shrink the size of the characters on a monitor, which someone(s) on a BBS told me can be done by holding down a CTRL Key and moving the Scroll wheel on the Mouse back or forward.

    Will that routine do that as well on an MAC, iMAC?

    Thank You!

    de ED W9ODR - . -
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