A reason I always wondered why anyone would use the Mac format. You cant believe how often we'd get media at work delivered on Mac formatted disks, and we PAID those people! If you pay someone, in my opinion, you should
Oh and on the crusty macs the whole file fork thing. You could copy an archive file or binary to a MAC via whatever means and it just showed up as an unusable blob without other utilities to change some thing about it so it could execute or so the archive programs could unarchive it.
Never understood the appeal of the crusty Macs, but I've owned a bunch as a collector. And they were good for desktop publishing!
- Ethan
It's actually funny seeing the different perspectives from people who had to deal with what is now our vintage computers! I always wondered why the Macs could read Mac or Windows formatted disks right out of the box but windows choked on anything but it's own format, and needed special drivers etc to read both (and often to even recognize its own hardware!) I never understood why people wouldn't just ask what format the printshop or whatever could accept (they'd assume it would "just work" like it did in their home or office) and why so many businesses (not all, but many I remember dealing with and even some still to this day!) didn't specify when initially dealing with a client what the client had vs what they had. Tony