The Classic II has a much-faster-than-stock 350MB drive in it, which I think is plenty and more storage for any Compact Mac, and the maximum 10MB RAM. I do not have one of the semi-mythical FPU cards. That's about it for hardware expansion in one of these things.
I found Nisus Writer 5 last evening and did the install. It does work, and surprisingly well, but is a little (not a lot) too slow in screen redraws and so forth to be pleasing to work with. Such slowness is a sure sign that the little machine is struggling. As the idea is to remind myself of what it is possible to do on a very basic machine, and as the machine coughs and wheezes in the attempt, I think I will try NisusWriter v. 4 and see how it behaves.
NisusWriter was chosen because it is still unsurpassed in many ways as a pure writer's tool. The alternative, I suppose, would be Word 5.1, which in my experience still works relatively well with current versions of the beast.
I found Nisus Writer 5 last evening and did the install. It does work, and surprisingly well, but is a little (not a lot) too slow in screen redraws and so forth to be pleasing to work with. Such slowness is a sure sign that the little machine is struggling. As the idea is to remind myself of what it is possible to do on a very basic machine, and as the machine coughs and wheezes in the attempt, I think I will try NisusWriter v. 4 and see how it behaves.
NisusWriter was chosen because it is still unsurpassed in many ways as a pure writer's tool. The alternative, I suppose, would be Word 5.1, which in my experience still works relatively well with current versions of the beast.