Northern Vermont Macintosh
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1. Tell a little bit about yourself. What is your name? What do you do? What are your interests? Where do you live? Do others in your family use
computers? Macintosh? etc. Geof Gonter, Conway, NH - Plant manager of a operation that produces wooden panels and dimension Interests are hiking, fishing, walking, folk, blues, jazz, photography, browsing the internet. I have computers running Mac OS (etherneted together) and Windows at work. I and my two daughters use Mac OS computers at home. 2. Describe your computer experience, when you first started using computers, the computer(s) you have now and their operating system(s). Include any comments such as what you think about Mac OS X. I started using computers in 1980 at my place of employment. That was an early MSDOS experience. In Dec. of 1983, I bought a Apple IIc for family use. I used AppleWorks Classic for many business, personal, and school related purposes. I then added a IIgs and switched to the Mac OS in 1993, when I purchased a Macintosh LCIII. Later I graduated to a Macintosh Quadra 840AV. In 2000, I joined the Power PC family with the purchased of a Macintosh 7300, with a Pentium 166 Card. One of my daughters has a Macintosh Quadra 650 and the other a Macintosh 233 Powerbook. We run a blend of operating services with 7.6.1 on the 650, 8.1 on the 840AV, and 8.6 on all the Power PCs. My 840AV is now used at work as a server using ethernet and LocalTalk Bridge. The other computers on the network are a PPC 7100/80, a StarMax 3000/180, and an IBM Pentium. I have no experience with Mac OS X. 3. List the things you do with your computer and related equipment, why you do them, and what programs you use. What programs do you use the most or like the most? Do you use any unusual programs? Home: I Use a CD-RW to burn CD's (Data & Audio) with Toast. 56k Global modem with Newswatcher 3.1, Eudora 4.2.2, Internet Explorer 5.0, AOL Instant Messenger, Fetch 4.0, and Ircle 3.0.4 (to chat). AppleWorks for word processing, spreadsheets, and database purposes. Scanner with ColorIt for scanning photos. Go-Live and Claris HomePage 3.0 for web pages. Work: AppleWorks, MicroSoft Office, and FileMaker Pro to send letters, cost accounting, order tracking, record employee attendance, and print production schedules and orders. 4. Are there any presentations you would like to see or read about, or any you would like to make? I will make any presentations on applications, I utilize, that will benefit the other members. I will also make presentations on upgrading or maintaining hardware, especially pre B&W. 5. If you appear to be the most informed NVMUG member related to a Macintosh user's question, may we e-mail question to you? Yes 6. May we share your response in an NVMUG eNewsletter on post it on a members' page on the NVMUG web site? Yes GGG--- |
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