Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!news.glorb.com!xmission!news.bbs-scene.org!macgui.com!dog_cow From: D Finnigan Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: Wifi/Ethernet Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2014 19:43:50 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Mac GUI Lines: 41 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: gunshin.wiredns.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: technocratmedia-w1.news.bbs-scene.org 1391543030 24481 74.119.145.48 (4 Feb 2014 19:43:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@bbs-scene.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2014 19:43:50 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mac GUI Usenet Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.mac.system:55887 Lewis wrote: > In message > erilar wrote: >> In article , Ted Lee >> wrote: > >>> On 2/2/14, 4:52 PM, erilar wrote: >>> > I see an enormous amount of trouble and expense as a result of being >>> > blocked from using almost every software program I currently use as >>> > well >>> > as every document and many graphics produced over the years since my >>> > first computer, many of which still ARE usable and reachable. That's >>> > what I see, whether I want to or not. >>> >>> Most of those went away when Classic and then Rosetta went away -- and >>> that was long before Mavericks. > >> Once upon a time Apple programs were backward compatible, so it wasn't >> necessary to update all my data every time the OS climbed to a new >> number. > > Oh yea, I rememebr how eeasy it was to open Appleworks files from my > //c+ on the Mac. Oh wait. It was pretty easy with Apple File Exchange. The IIc Plus had an 800 k DS drive. > > Wait, when was this mythical backwards compatibility period when prices > were low and politicians were honest and the summers were long and it > always snowed on Christmas Eve? There is a game called Missile Command. It was written in 1984. It will run on every model of Macintosh and every classic Mac OS System up to 9.2. -- ]DF$ Apple II Book: http://macgui.com/newa2guide/ Usenet: http://macgui.com/usenet/ <-- get posts by email! Apple II Web & Blog hosting: http://a2hq.com/