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 < [email protected]> 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 < > [email protected]> 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 > > > > > > > >
