1 Feb
2025
1 Feb
'25
4:38 a.m.
Half the time, I hear from my family, "why do you spend all this time
working with obsolete stuff?"
The other half, I hear, "if you can do it, why can't I? Don't make it
complicated, just tell me the two or three steps I need to do."
On Fri, Jan 31, 2025 at 10:28 PM David C. Jenner via cctalk <
cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
You mean you don't have an old Mac that can do all
this? I just went
through collecting old data on 3 old Mac OS X versions and Mac OS 9 on a
G4 tower that's 25 years old. It also runs an older, very expensive
Nikon film scanner that works great. Networking on this still works
great, and I can send to newer Macs/Windows as needed.
Dave
On 1/31/25 2:29 PM, Zane Healy via cctalk wrote:
On Jan 31, 2025, at 11:24 AM, Cameron Kelly via
cctalk <
cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
>
> I'm glad Microsoft is paying respects to their history. It feels like
Apple barely does, or acts as if things that they produced before their
current product cycle don't exist.
My primary problem is that they do things that are openly hostile to
those of us that have been running on the Mac for 30+ years. Recently I
needed to access some older data, and it turned into a large project when I
discovered that not only couldn’t newer versions of MacOS not access the
floppies, they couldn’t access Mac CD-R’s. I ended up copying everything
over to a Hard Drive 100’s of floppies and CD’s from DOS and Mac. Then I
discovered that the latest version of Microsoft Office *ON THE MAC* can’t
read MS Office 4.2 documents (such as MS Word 6.0). In the end I had to
create emulation environments for my old Mac and DOS systems on my current
Mac laptop. It’s been useful having access to the original dBase
databases, rather than trying to access the converted FileMaker Pro
databases.
Of course prior to this, in the early days of Mac OS X, they dropped
support for AppleTalk, then AppleTalk printing. Then MacOS 9 apps, and now
more recently 32-bit MacOS Apps.
Of course Windows isn’t perfect for Backwards compatibility, a lot of us
have to keep Windows XP running (in my case as a VM on my 2010 Mac Pro), in
order to drive things like vintage film scanners.
Zane