Who still uses os 9/classic?

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Just wondering if there are still people out there who are running the old operating systems such as os 9, if so what do you use it for? Can it do your day to day tasks you rely on? How would you compare it to using OS X?
 
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There are two columnists on www.lowendmac.com who write about this a lot. Dan Knight and Charles Moore are always on about how they use OS9 and why they don't want to switch to hardware without classic support.
 

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I have some old MacDraw Pro files still around.
 
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I still use it, mosty for QuarkXpress 3.2 or 4.11. I also use it to manipulate files in OS X (no X file is invisible), usually Spotlight's Search.bundle folder. I change its name to nuke the Spotlight icon, and change it back before downloading software updates. I'm posting this with WaMCom's Mozilla 1.3.1 after changing the Search.bundle folder name again after loading 10.4.7 through Software Update.

On this dual G4, surfing the net with 9.2.2 is a lot faster than with Tiger. Actually, everything is.
 
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I use Quark xPress at work on an iMac G3 running OS 9.2.2.

I have a few free games on my Powerbook that run using Classic.

That's about it...I'd like to get an iBook G3 that I could load 9.2.2 on for nostalgia purposes.
 

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