Can You Do Real Work With the 30-Year-Old IBM 5150?

Having been given an imac g3 running Mac OS 9, and also was thinking of resurrecting it just for fun. The imac has been sitting idly for 2 months now. But recently got hold of a some old PC133 ram so I might go back and slowly work on it until I have it running with Mac OS X or some other linux variant.

Mac OS X or some other linux variant

You mean some other UNIX variant.

I was doing the same thing with my old MSX-2; it's a Z80 based system which is easy to program, has a video digitizer, midi keyboard, 2 3.5 floppy drives, 256 kb memory, tons of software and communication via modem or rs232 interface. I'm still looking for the schema for the ethernet card; not much luck there though. I run, depending on what i'm doing, http://uzix.sourceforge.net/, Basic or MSX-DOS and I must say it all works quite nicely.

> And when I think "word processor software," Microsoft Word usually springs to mind.

Reading this, I immediately thought: Volkswriter. Nice to see the author landed there too. I remember those cheat sheet templates we used to overlay on our function keys for programs like Volkswriter and, later, WordPerfect.