"Our old Macs will lose some usefulness if they cannot somehow share info with the next generations of all platforms."
They can upwards from the old to the new models but not necessarily the reverse. E.G. 1- I can use OS 6.0.8 or 7.5.3 or 7.6.1 on the IIci. 2- The 7300/180 can read and write using OS 7.5.3 or 7.6.3 as well as OS 9.1 and up to OS 9.2.2 although I have to 'trick' the 7300 when installing OS 9.2.2. The IIci and 7300 can read its others data and most of the software. 3- The G4 I use has OS 9.2.2 and OS 10.4.11 installed. It therefore can read anything the 7300 can produce on OS 9.2.2. Moast of my data: legal, administrative, tz, stock market and personal hasbeen created by the IIci and is archived on external SCSI drives which can be read by the 7300 and G4. And so on. --- On Fri, 8/29/08, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From: Wallace Adrian D'Alessio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: I Love This Group To: [email protected] Date: Friday, August 29, 2008, 11:35 AM On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 7:24 PM, Simon Royal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have been reading some posts over the past few weeks with amazement. I thought I was a minority with my love of old Macs. > Many of us use OS X on old Macs. not exactly a violation of the EULA but there was much the same resistance on these lists to that idea in the old days as running OS X on PCs now. Why would we want to? Economics plain and simple initially. Our old Macs are still great and usable obviously. But how many on Low End Mac can afford the Apple options when new hardware is needed for a task. To go beyond what is possible for an older Mac. I know there are some who will install Leopard on a Lisa just to show it can happen. But I am talking about doinf real work. Yet we are still tied to the OS that we love. i know many here will have eschewed the discussion of Apple OS on PC hardware. But will a Mini Or iMac fulfill your business or career needs for expandability and upgradability? If I could up the bus speed of my beloved 9600 and have Intel off the shelf chips in it as a Mac Pro does this would not be an issue for me. Forgive my opinion here but this issue will eventually effect all Mac users. Even those maintianing vintage machines as we will need to keep file transferability alive. Our old Macs will lose some usefulness if they cannot somehow share info with the next generations of all platforms. We are long beyond the point where one doing serious work can hope to communicate while being blind to other platforms. Mac OS is a valuable vivacious tool for that but how long will older Macs keep up. Even G5s are long in tooth now. The day of Motorola is over. At least for new Apple hardware. Adrian --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
