Macs Only!

From Mactell's Pat Berry about an upcoming great deal, "...the promotion will offer purchasers of our XB Pro Tsunami 604e 233Mhz base system a FREE upgrade to our 233Mhz G3 with 512k cache. The official press release will go out Monday...." Look for it here Monday on Macs Only!

Reader Jeff Gates reported problems with ScrollMagick v1.0 and filling out forms on Netscape. He had difficulties tabbing between fields with ScrollMagick enabled. Please let me know if you are having problems and I will forward them to Eden Sherry.

From MacDev, "A recent analysis of the worldwide Macintosh installed base and the Macintosh user base for fiscal year 1997 (ending September 30), revealed a number of interesting highlights, including the following:

• 27.6 million Macintosh computers have been shipped worldwide since 1984.
• 79 percent of all Macintosh computers shipped are still in use. (That's 21.8 million active Macintosh computers.)
• There are an average of 3.2 users per active installed Macintosh, which means there are 69.3 million Macintosh users worldwide."

MacCentral reported that there may be as many as 8 more Mac OS releases!

From Eldee Stephens, "Remember the old days? When a Mac was a Mac -- and none of this "OS" stuff was talked about? The days when the Mac IIfx was king or when the Quadras were lightning-fast? Quite a few do. In fact, with all of the older Macintosh computers floating around, one wonders why everyone keeps talking about new PowerPC chips and whether Apple will port to Merced. thessaSOURCE contributor Miles Durrie looks at those days, and offers some great ideas and notes to owners of older Macs: from the Plus to the Quadra, if you care at all about older Macs, check out This Old Mac."