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What is the oldest application you use?
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Posted by satis
Nov 22, 2017 at 12:05 PM
The oldest Mac app I (occasionally) use is the Opal outliner by David Dunham.
It’s the exact same app as his original 1986(?) outliner for the Mac called Acta. He sold the app in the 90s, it was renamed DynoNotepad, then it eventually disappeared. He apparently bought back the rights to it then recoded it to work on modern, non-PowerPC Macs.
If you’ve got one of those old Macs, Dunham has released Acta for free use:
Opal is basic and fast and I still am able to access and edit my 1980s outlines. For hardcore outlining I currently use other options but Opal still runs - and well - and imports/exports OPML.
The oldest Mac app in my Apps folder is ClipEdit from 2006, which lets you edit Mac text clippings & picture clippings:
http://www.everydaysoftware.net/clipedit/