On EBay, a few months ago. I wanted to do a few things using Adobe InDesign, and I also wanted to have the option of using Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Acrobat, although I ended up not needing to use those. I had used those software programs extensively on my newspaper job, from which I retired in 2014. After I retired I went to the computer store to buy the latest version of the Adobe Creative Suite (which includes all of those applications) to replace a much earlier version of the Adobe Creative Suite that I had purchased in February 2005, since I was not going to have access to those applications any more at work. That was when I found out you can't buy that any more. Instead you have to buy a key or link and get online and pay a subscription fee to turn it on for 12 months. I think that costs several hundred dollars. I hit the ceiling when I found out about that! Think about what they're now making you do to use their software. They're trying to force you to have to pay them money FOREVER!
Well, I absolutely will not do that. For one thing, I might use that software only once or twice a year, or perhaps not even that often. For another, just on principle I will not allow them to be sucking money out of me FOREVER, even if I'll want to use the software often. So I decided, I will just use the Adobe Creative Suite software I purchased in February 2005, and I still have the installation disks for that older version. The problem is, that software will not run on my current computers. It's just too old, and there are software compatibility issues.
So, I needed an older computer that will run that old software. I still have my old laptop from back then, but when I tried to boot it up I discovered that it won't run any more. It had been sitting there in that closet untouched since about 2010 and when I tried to boot it up it just displayed a bunch of indecipherable computer language and an error message.
So I went online and found an old computer on EBay that would run that software. Now I've got that old Mac laptop, it works great, and I have my Adobe Creative Suite software installed on it and that works great too. And I'm not having to pay several hundred dollars per year to those greedy corporate capitalists to use it. They're not going to be able to suck money out of me forever.
I wanted to use it to make some bumper stickers for my car and I have to save them as .pdf files, save them on thumb drives and put the thumb drives in the new computer.
Anyway, the bottom line is, you can find uses for old computer equipment. I've got some still older software that I would love to be able to still use, but I would have to have even older computers for that.
-- Ron
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