I keep a 2011 Macbook Air on High Sierra for this sort of thing. It's connected to a TB2 dock, which gives it Firewire 800. I have a SATA to USB adapter as well, so I can pull drives and plug them into the MBA.
Here’s my current gaming config:
I think it depended on what you used it for...
Thankfully, at the time I entered the graphic design/newspaper industry, it was largely run on Macs using OS 7, 8, and 9. It wasn't until 2004 for me that OS X on a G4 became a concern.
Brings back memories. I worked for Gannett twice: when I was 15yo selling USA Today subscriptions door to door, people were amazed at a COLOR newspaper in the 80s and the weather map itself earned many subscriptions. 🙂 The second was 2015. Worked on digital marketing and advertising solutions to try to offset loss of print subscription and classified revenue. Recall lots of trashcan Macs and Adobe and Quark products predominantly. The print press was always so cool to watch. I took these pictures of the press before it was dismantled and the printing was outsourced (sadly) in 2017.
Yep, I've been there twice for some regional team meetings. We mostly met at the Arizona Republic offices but I recall a couple Palm Springs trips. Sounds like you did a lot of what my "Kristie" did, she would give me proofs of auto dealer ads that I would then review with the dealers in town. I'd sit with the dealers and markup the proofs with any changes, then bring them back to Kristie and she would get those organized and updated for nightly printing. She was always the last to leave the building I'm pretty sure (not counting the print press guys in the back). The Reno paper is now printed in Sacramento (same press that does the Sacramento Bee, most of the northern Nevada papers, and I think one or two in Utah - prints Gannett, McClatchy, and Tribune papers if I'm not mistaken).
I actually got an interview in 2000 with the Arizona Republic. I applied, considering it was (is?) Gannett and I'd already worked with the Desert Sun. Ultimately, that didn't work out and I ended up somewhere else.
You might do a search for Times Media Group out of Tempe, AZ. The demise of local newspapers is overexaggerated. TMG since 2003 or so has snapped up a lot of locals in different states. They bought out the newspaper I was working for in late 2018.
You're right, I think demise may be overstating it. But you and I have both seen the huge changes in the industry. Consolidation was a necessary evil post-Internet. Craigslist nearly single-handedly killed classified print revenue. I know that Gannett and Tribune co-owned Cars.com, Realestate.com a few others in the late 2010s until I think Cars.com had it's own spinoff/IPO and Tribune/Tegna took over some of the other online properties and television stations. Papers haven't had the easiest go of it but I agree there are still a lot of mid-market/smaller-market papers that are thriving. I guess I'm also disappointed/jaded from the Gannett experience. I still have the presentation from before Bob Dickey (Pres/CEO) retired and it wasn't looking good that a large chunk of revenue was coming from the ongoing and future sale of real estate. That's what they eventually did in Reno, outsourced printing, sold the property (it's now a police station), and moved into some leased generic offices downtown. In the end, lots of newspapers have had to adjust, and a bit sad to see the consolidation, cost-cutting, reduced runs, and struggles of at least some of the papers. The local paper here is still going, but subscriptions and circulation are half of what they were when I left 8 years ago. Maybe a large meteor or Carrington Event will knock out all tech and newspapers will regain their rightful place! 😉
at some point there was a project on GitHub called FirstRow but never needed/tried it, yet seems quite faithful to what I remember from it
My least favorite feature of Apple Music is that in the process of sync'ing, anything on the target device that is not part of the sync gets erased. I would love to be able to download some of my music collection to my wife's iPhone, but Apple Music's sync process would delete everything that I was not downloading.
Considering the window title icons are folders that all look the same instead of what we see in the side bar I don't think its very useful.
That's true for most of the "Shortcuts" but here's what I see for "Locations." Granted, still not as useful/fun as the old days. P.S. I'm using custom icons for my internal SSD and external SSD (OWC Enclosure).
I'm still using iTunes on Mojave! I likely won't ever switch because I use Adobe CS6 and Aperture. 😎
