Now posting under the top . . . . On Sun, May 14, 2017 at 10:03 AM, Aere Greenway <a...@dvorak-keyboards.com> wrote:
> I was just glad to report how I had come up with a rather different way of > making it work for me, and that it did work as a music workstation. > > I do lament the coming demise of all 32-bit machines, but I will move on, > when it is necessary to do so. > Aere: Yep, I was following what you were reporting . . . I was just commenting on the "motivation" that is driving that inclination . . . keeping that "old" hardware going . . . which I find admirable . . . but, time and technology waits for no "man" or "woman" . . . in spite of how we manage to squeeze play it. @et al: Thanks for the other comments and insights, to me the "ten year" mark seems a little quick/short, but indeed after that seems like the machines have built in obsolescence factor that is boring away . . . . I wish I could find good quality replacement parts for my PowerMac 3,1 that just found its way to the Big Sleep for some yet undiscovered reason . . . it's under 20 years old and was more or less running fine until a "sudden" and un - telegraphed demise . . . screen went black w/o any warning . . . . It's a tower and could be easy to access all parts, but seems like even if I could find a mobo that worked, there would be some other compatibility issues and/or HD plug problems . . . like now I have a bunch of data on the HD that has an IDE plug set up . . . that a machine running OSX 10.6 with Classic can launch, but, my new-ish 2012 Mac Pro . . . similar in hardware to most Mac Pro's running back to '09 . . . but, won't itself run on anything prior to OSX 10.7 . . . . These little sys requirement problems keep adding up in complexity as time builds on a machine and/or the "data" that is only "good" for a few years until it become inaccessible . . . sad to see it disappear due to hardware failure or software demanding more resources. But, Ralf, I may try to get with you about a mobo replacement for my Mac Pro in a couple years . . . . if it makes it to 8 years, I'm going to try to push it to . . . um, 12 . . . . F
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