It appears that Sheafe EWING, [email protected], wrote: >Dear Bill, > >Read your message on Emailer-talk. > >Nice to know you're happy with the acquisition of a PowerBook G4 >from eBay, that came with Leopard. > >I think you have given me the solution for keeping my Emailer files >while being enabled to come slowly into the present day Mac world..... >following your lead. > >It's been two years or more that I acquired my desktop tower... which >doesn't accomodate SCSI. With reluctance, I gave away a beautiful >SCSI scanner (Epson Perfection) because I couldn't (without some expense) >enable the use of the SCSI equipped scanner with the tower. > >Thanks. Good to know you're still able to use Emailer. Incidentally, >have >you ever Archived your older Emailer files? > >Sheafe Ewing >(Quicksilver G4 tower, OS 10.3.9 running Classic, and with a partition >there that contains OS 9.2.2)
Gee, I'm happy that I actually may have helped someone. I thought that I was just spouting off, because I'm so happy with my new arrangement. First of all, I was really lucky to get a PowerBook G4 on eBay that came loaded with not only 10.5.6, but a ton of other software to boot. I had been watching eBay for that, for a long time - because I know that companies which resell have to clear off all software other than the OS, because of the "rights" thing. I thought that I was going to have to offload all of that to an external HD in order to reformat to handle the three OS's. But luckily I bought Pogue's "Missing Manual for Leopard" from amazon.com, and found out there that Leopard will reformat "on-the-fly" without losing anytning that is already there. I just followed the instructions, and SHAZAM, it's reformatted! (See also my reply to Bea's post). So it looks like we CAN have the best of both worlds, at least for the forseeable future. It blows me away that the old stuff works BETTER thru Classic in OSX. (Of course, I DID buy a new backup HD to safeguard everything.) Best regards, Bill _______________________________oOo______________________________ William D. Bandes [email protected] Zephyr Cove NV USA ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[email protected]> or <[email protected]>
