I've setup Mac Pluses and SE's all over our school so
everyone has access to email.
I've setup Mac Pluses and SE's all over our school so
everyone has access to email.
One fantastic use is as card file readers in the library.
We installed a IIsi as a server with a bar code scanner attached.
All books have a bar code inside the front cover and each student
has a bar coded library card. We have four Plus/SE's AppleTalked
to the IIsi and running software called Casper. Searches can be
done, and you know instantly if the book is in or out.
My sister-in-law teaches music (3rd-8th grade); We ...
attached a borrowed CD-ROM and installed MusicTime (by PassPort);
attached a MIDI keyboard to the modem port with the MIDI
Translator II from Opcode; attached a StyleWriter I to the
printer port. She rehearses with her show choir students using
the MacPlus because she can play whatever selection of the songs
she needs; varying the tempo to better practice certain parts.
You can't vary the tempo with a tape! It lets students create and
print music via point-and-click, MIDI file import, or _live_
keyboard entry. When she can't be there the show choir students
can rehearse on their own because a Mac is easy to run.
For those of you who want to get on the web with a browser on a Plus, SE or
SE/30, Portable or other 68000 series Mac, here's the URL for the MacWeb
browser:
It will work with Macs with 4 megs minimum. Here's the URL for an instruction manual on how to do it: http://www.eden.com/~arena/jagshouse/compactmac.hqx
This follow-up message is from:
WillMcN@aol.com (Will McNaughten Loving)
Many thanks to the over 200 people who sent me suggestions for a web browser that would work on a 4MB b/w Mac such as the Plus, Classic, SE. (I even heard from Steve Wozniak, nice to know he's a MacWay reader). Far and away the software most suggested was MacWeb 1.1.1, which has a "minimum size" of 750K and a "prefered size" of 2048k. It can run in both text-only and graphics mode and is fast and trouble free. If you need a fast, low-RAM browser even if you don't have a RAM limitation, you might want to consider it.
Try these places to download it or search around. There is also an older version around, 1.0 A32 I think. Be sure to get the later version 1.1.1.
I am the Theatre Manager for a High School Theatre. I rely
heavly on students to volunteer for crew work. The students
recieve 1/4 credit for each 25 hours worked. I use a Mac Plus
with 4 meg and a Apple 20 meg hard drive to run a custom
Hypercard stack to keep track of the students as they enter and
exit the Theatre facility, and to automatically count their hours
for student credit. All the students do is scroll to their name
and click on it.
A year or two ago, I had a group of university students
write a HyperCard 1.2 based game called Scavanger Hunt for a
local elementary school. It was designed to fit in with the 2nd
grade curriculum on neighborhoods, and was based on the actually
neighborhood of the school. Children who played it would learn
where the parks, shopping centers, banks, old people's homes,
etc. were. The school still runs this on old pluses which have
moved from the central lab to elementary level classrooms.
Donate to schools or non-profits where they're used a lot!
Send them to my school!!!! Our teachers use Plus's and SE's for
basic word processing (ClarisWorks 2.1 - tests, parent letters,
announcements, etc), electronic gradebook program (Grade
Machine), access to county office's AS/400 computer (Andrew
Corp's InterAxcess/Netaxcess) (remote access) for email and
entering end of term grades, an intra/interschool email program
(FirstClass)..... virtually all of the above were purchased as
used machines by the PTO or with ice cream money.