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 Posted: Sun May 22nd, 2016 14:16
Robert



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Hi JK, thanks for the interest. My copy is MacProject II, I think it was a Claris software but can't be sure atm. I got it fortuitously; I bought a 20Mb Hard Drive in a SCSI enclosure. It was a used drive you couldn't get new easily at the time, would be about 1991?

When I connected the drive to the computer (and overcame the termination issues!!!) it was loaded with almost every software application you could mention! MacProject was on that 20 Mb disk. The disk is long gone!

My G4 Power Mac is model M5183 a 466Mhz with Gig Ethernet, it should boot into OS 9.1 or 9.2 natively rather than via Rosetta in emulation mode. I think I have the original boot CD's for this particular machine. SOMEWHERE! I will definitely have OS 9.1 on something, somewhere.

I also have to get my head around ATA drives again! With 'Master', 'Slave' jumpers to configure. I only have a limited number of ATA drives, although I have a friend who can help me out with drives and OS's if I am stuck.

As for MacProjectII it was £350+ back in 1991 I will check it out and let you know. It's the best project management software I have used, really simple yet capable of quite complex projects and even concurrent sub projects. I used it to cost a factory foundation job and it was correct to the day. I got lots of Brownie points for that!

Edit:

Good old Google!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacProject

It was adopted by Claris and marketed by Apple at the time. The pert chart input makes it a doddle to create countless sub projects and then see how they fit the timeline. Brilliant. To my knowledge there isn't a similar software available today, which is a great shame.



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