On Jun 29, 2011, at 6:25 AM, Iamanamma wrote:
Honestly folks, the answer is not "upgrade your Mac." I used to post why I had such a dinosaur still in service until I got sick of everyone ignoring what I wrote. There is a program on that computer that is vital to the operation of three very large and very expensive turret punches and one laser cutter that are the life's blood of the business that supplies my paycheck. I apologize if I am sounding really bitchy, but it is extremely irritating when I ask a question and everyone tells me to upgrade my hardware and install some version of OS X or Linux. Multipunch will not function properly on OS 9 and not at all on any version of OS X. If my memory serves me right, nothing newer than the Yikes! G4 will run OS 8.6. I would have upgraded YEARS ago if it had been possible. The iMac where I do most of my work is only 1 year old and is running 10.6.6. Ditto for the Mac Mini I have at home.
I can truly relate to your problem I too use a CAD/CAM program "Virtual Gibbs" That dropped the support on Macs in the late 90's so I keep some dinosaurs around just in case. The "New Software" is PC only and costs $18,000. and they will not up grade the $17,500 Mac version I have. And like you this is how I make my living. So to the guys who say buy a newer Mac I ask which magic one do you know that will run these apps? Oh and another thing is they use hardware keys "Dongles" on ADB ports. The newest machine I can use is a G3 iMac with a Griffin iMate adaptor on booted OS9. It will not run on Classic emulation due to some extensions that must read at boot time.:-).
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