31 Jan
2025
31 Jan
'25
2:29 p.m.
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