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piratePenguin:

--- Quote ---it will allow me to type up setlists, lyrics, lists of what's on each track of each recording etc
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a text editor for that.

EDIT: ok maybe I didn't read this:
--- Quote ---i am not keen on the idea of having to save things to floppies, fire up the "real" computer and then reopen it in OO.o just to resave in a more modern format
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Calum:

--- Quote from: piratePenguin ---a text editor for that.


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ah well, i see, but what i mean is that
a) it can be in the studio (not the same room as the real computer (whose name is harvey by the way) and
b) it boots in 5 seconds and shuts down in 3, making it perfect if you just want to type something out before you forget it and then get back to recording.

perhaps you mean a separate handheld text device or something? that would be fine (or of course a pencil?) but i actually do have this computer for free, so i might as well use it. also, it will have internet access in 5 seconds (well, you know, time to click on the browser and all that too), which will help with any music related internet searches i might suddenly feel urged to do while i am playing music, and that does happen a lot.

EDIT: oh i understand what you mean now, you mean, why use a word processor when a text editor will do, that is a very fair comment. setlists though tend to want to be in maybe 24pt text so you can see them from standing height when they are on the floor, that's my only answer. also, if i can get a bit more formatting versatility then why not? i expect the mac text format is similar enough to the unix one that there will be some simple filter script i can use, that's not really a huge deal, although it would be better if i could output standard files directly on the mac (text or otherwise) in case i want to email them. also if somebody emails me an MS word file, i would like to be able to open it on the mac, though this will become less likely over time as MS do deprecate their older versions of word over time. i did try to open a .doc file once in MS word 97 which i had made using the version of write.exe that came with MS windows 1.0 on the same computer, but suffice it to say it was a total disaster. i was disgusted that they can't even make their newer versions of ms word support its own file formats.

anyway, that's just more digression.

piratePenguin:

--- Quote from: Calum ---perhaps you mean a separate handheld text device or something?
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No - I mean you could probably use a text editor on the mac, instead of a word processor, if you wanted..

EDIT: ok I see your edit

H_TeXMeX_H:
Or you might consider writing it in HTML or something. Technically the only advantage of a word processor over a text editor is more formatting opitons ... like HTML.

bedouin:
I really can't remember how I got the 7.5.5 files into something more manageable.  .sea files are "self extracting archives" and probably need opened on a Mac, or maybe StuffIt Expander for Windows can deal with it (do they make products for Linux?)  If they ended up as .bin files, I probably used OS X's disk utility to write them to floppy disk.  I don't remember much other than moving back and forth between my living room and kitchen with floppies in my hand about 40 times (I only had 10 disks around).  Or I might have moved them over with Appletalk from OS 9 -- it's hard to say.  The easiest thing to do, obviously, is find a SCSI CD-ROM and use an install CD when possible . . .

For editing text, I don't really see what's not modern about rich text files; I use them all the time for taking notes and what not (firing up TextEdit is easier than Word -- and needs less screen real estate).  I think OS 7.5 comes with SimpleText, or whatever it was called.  Hey, it even has a Wiki -- and Apple released the source to it apparently as well.  

If you plan on spending more than $30 on this you've already spent too much.  System 7 will probably mean saying bye-bye to your 5-second start up times as well.

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