On 2010-08-10 09:41 , LuKreme wrote:
I'm not sure why that's ironic.
me neither, i think he meant it's slightly interesting
Anyone still on OS 9 is the very definition of penny-wise, pound-foolish. When there machine dies, they will lose everything because they haven't migrated their data along the way and now they will have a very hard time converting their OS 9 files to a usable format.
i pondered this and concluded most everything of mine worth saving from olden times has needed no conversion; for example i tap spacebar and even QuickLook can display pictures i drew in MacPaint in 1985
then i found some Word files from 1990 and on -- the type TextEdit can't read; Word 2004 (which i just opened for the first time in months) handled them fine, but this was a good opportunity to resave these as text for posterity
but if i tried to open a current Word doc with Word 5, i think that is the kind of hopeless act that MRW was bringing to our attention
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