Re: How many of us are there left?

[Caballero Carlo.Caballero@xxxxxxxx]

I pretty much stopped using XyWrite (I'm and XY3 fan) this year, but the
recent stream of messages concerning options for using under OSX may
inspire me to revive it. The automatic keyboard shortcuts are still in my
muscle memory! (Thanks, Paul, for launching this informal census.)
Part of my problem is that I hated Windows from the start. I never adopted
it in the 1990s. I went directly from an aging PC running DOS well into
the 2000s to a Mac PowerBook in 2005 that allowed me to run DOS sans
Windows inVirtual PC. But of course the end of the Power PC chip meant
that eventually I'd have to give up Virtual PC--or reconcile with Windows.
I just replaced that laptop with a new Mac Book Pro. It's time to
experiment with Boxer, etc.! The new version of Pages is profoundly
inadequate (whereas the iWork '09 version was tolerable as a writing
tool). I can almost hear Giuseppe Verdi's bon mot: «Torniamo all'antico e
sarà un progresso». Perhaps there's a future for XyWrite.

Carlo

Carlo Caballero

Associate Professor & Erma Mantey Faculty Fellow
University of Colorado
College of Music, 301 UCB
18th & Euclid
Boulder CO 80309-0301

thyrsus@xxxxxxxx

On Thu, 6 Nov 2014, Paul Breeze wrote:
> Dear all
> Does anybody have an idea how many of us still use XY4, XY3 and XYWin? I'm
> guessing there are 20-30 from the list but that could be way out, in either
> direction.
>
> Paul