Comments on: Do everything with freeware. (or at least pay a little less) http://fox.blog.friendster.com/2005/12/do-everything-with-freeware-or-at-least-pay-a-little-less/ Eat good, old fashioned, real food. All else in life will follow. Sat, 26 Dec 2009 02:06:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Faux http://fox.blog.friendster.com/2005/12/do-everything-with-freeware-or-at-least-pay-a-little-less/#comment-29 Faux Sat, 18 Nov 2006 08:31:59 +0000 http://fox.blog.friendster.com/2005/12/do-everything-with-freeware-or-at-least-pay-a-little-less/#comment-29 Woo-Hoo! A lady after my own heart! Thanks for the great run-down on some alternate-ware ideas! I had similar faves back in the day before Win95 made its debut, but due to compatibility troubles which abounded then, I kinda gave up the idea and went the MS path. Avagio and ClarisWorks were on those early lists because they allowed me to use my new color printer... and I could work on my CW docs on either IBM or Mac machines, since Claris had versions for both platforms (which was not very common back then). Both were a fraction of the price of similar MS products. When I bought my first PC in grad school in 1988 (a used CPQ Portable 286 at 8MHz, 640k RAM, 20G HardCard, and CGA for $1,500), almost all my software was shareware I bought from a shop across the road from school (UT Austin). I guess SlicWorks was the first title... an Office-type suite of apps that fit onto a single 5.25" floppy disk. Hah! It was said to be "Like [Lotus] Symphony" for those who remember that one. Woo-Hoo!
A lady after my own heart! Thanks for the great run-down on some alternate-ware ideas!

I had similar faves back in the day before Win95 made its debut, but due to compatibility troubles which abounded then, I kinda gave up the idea and went the MS path.

Avagio and ClarisWorks were on those early lists because they allowed me to use my new color printer… and I could work on my CW docs on either IBM or Mac machines, since Claris had versions for both platforms (which was not very common back then). Both were a fraction of the price of similar MS products.

When I bought my first PC in grad school in 1988 (a used CPQ Portable 286 at 8MHz, 640k RAM, 20G HardCard, and CGA for $1,500), almost all my software was shareware I bought from a shop across the road from school (UT Austin).

I guess SlicWorks was the first title… an Office-type suite of apps that fit onto a single 5.25″ floppy disk. Hah! It was said to be “Like [Lotus] Symphony” for those who remember that one.

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