[Discussion] Mesa 2 and Printing

[D Burch]

Well Ernie you certainly have a point. I have done just that. Other than 
a lot of fond memories I was only using OS/2 to surf and Relish.
I alway had to maintain a windows box as well. I never favored dual boot 
and virtual pc got swallowed before it was mature.
I picked up a Mac Mini, an extra 1GB ram and VMware to run windows - all 
for around CAD$1000.00
As I wrote earlier, i plugged it in and it works - everything works!
Esther had mentioned earlier that the base price of the Mac may seem 
higher, but you do not have to purchase a lot of additional software. 
She hit that right on. What I haven't liked about any built in software, 
I have picked up pretty much as very high quality freeware.  I tried 
Open Office for Mac but didn't care for it. A friend told me to try 
NeoOffice. It is a much smoother.

A bit of relearning the basics.

I have this mini plugged into a 32" Sharp Aquos monitor. The full screen 
display is not great, it is stunning! It was stunning before I upgraded 
the ram to 2 GB.

Certainly worth checking out.

Don Burch



Ernie Fisch wrote:
> As stated before Mesa 2 would not print.  It lists my printer in the print
> dialog but sends nothing.  Other applications have no problem printing. 
> This started after I had to delete my printers and reinstall them.  I
> hesitate to try another printer install.
>
> I next removed and reinstalled Mesa 2.  Same  problem.  Finally using Mesa
> 2 help I tried drag and drop printing.  Guess what? that works.  It is
> only slightly inconvenient to do it that way so once again I have salvaged
> eCS.
>
> As my current machine becomes more psychotic I am faced with replacing it. 
> The most likely candidate is the Mac.  I have tired of messing with
> systems.  I just want something that works and that rules out anything
> from MS.
>
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