[thelist] switching to Mac

[Arlen.P.Walker at jci.com]

>I preferred PC ONLY because the
>Mac (and Apple before that) refuses to give me tools to get to low-level
code. There used to be "Norton's Utilities" and when diskettes
>went bad (before hard drives were that affordable), you could easily
recover [most of] your data by looking at disk sectors and copying
>them into memory, for example. Nothing similar for Mac/Apple.

At least not that you managed to find. The rest of us found plenty of those
tools, including Norton Utilities for the Mac (which has been around since
Mac's mid-life). Sedit was around since the appearance of SCSI drives on
the Mac; SUM showed up fairly early in the Mac life, as well. Beneath
AppleDOS even told you how to write your own such tool for the Apple II, if
you were so inclined.

The tools existed, just not from the usual PC suspects. I found most of
them by hanging around The Mousehole, and early Mac BBS.

Have fun,
Arlen
Chief Managing Director In Charge, Department of Redundancy Department
DNRC 224

Arlen.P.Walker at JCI.Com
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