{"id":22113,"date":"2018-07-16T16:32:48","date_gmt":"2018-07-16T20:32:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=22113"},"modified":"2018-07-16T16:32:48","modified_gmt":"2018-07-16T20:32:48","slug":"how-far-does-20mhz-of-macintosh-iisi-power-go-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/16\/how-far-does-20mhz-of-macintosh-iisi-power-go-today\/","title":{"rendered":"How Far Does 20MHz of Macintosh IIsi Power Go Today?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/features\/2018\/07\/classic-computing-joyride-cruising-through-modern-workloads-on-a-macintosh-iisi\/\">Chris Wilkinson<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/features\/2018\/07\/classic-computing-joyride-cruising-through-modern-workloads-on-a-macintosh-iisi\/\">\n<p>As I pressed on with using the IIsi, I found the experience to be an overall pleasant devolution: no wizards, no updates, very simple user interfaces, no essential updating required. After just a couple of CPU cycles, you land on a blank page to begin your masterpiece. Typing on Apple&rsquo;s renowned Extended Keyboard II also certainly helped.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>On top of that, Photoshop uses 6MB of RAM, meaning that IIsi owners that haven&rsquo;t upgraded from their original 5MB total (or less) may need to use virtual memory. But just to prove that I could, I was able to place my new logo in-line with my ongoing word processing document. It&rsquo;s about as clunky as it is adding pictures in a modern word processor, but it works.<\/p>\n<p>With some surprise, I was able to create PDFs using the Acrobat PDFWriter and view them using Acrobat Reader 3. Similarly I was able to view <em>most<\/em> modern PDFs, although larger files would fail to open.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>I hadn&rsquo;t expected to be able to access my Gmail account using the IIsi, and this turned out to be the case with all of the email clients tested. As with the Web browsers, the main problem was modern security methods.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Wilkinson: As I pressed on with using the IIsi, I found the experience to be an overall pleasant devolution: no wizards, no updates, very simple user interfaces, no essential updating required. After just a couple of CPU cycles, you land on a blank page to begin your masterpiece. Typing on Apple&rsquo;s renowned Extended Keyboard [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2018-07-16T20:32:50Z","apple_news_api_id":"ab89464c-73fe-4b88-ab3b-5fc04cd9e580","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2018-07-16T20:32:51Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/Aq4lGTHP-S4irO1_ATNnlgA","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[332,1027,150,295,30,1702,445,1522,345,790,922,96],"class_list":["post-22113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-photoshop","tag-clarisworks","tag-email","tag-history","tag-mac","tag-mac-iisi","tag-microsoftword","tag-mp3","tag-pdf","tag-sftp","tag-system-7","tag-web"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22113"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22114,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22113\/revisions\/22114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}