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 <cctalk@classiccmp.org>
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
