В письме от Wed, 01 Jun 2011 18:08:58 +0400, Adam Moffett <[email protected]> сообщал:
> It may be more practical to migrate that data to something newer than to > try keeping the same program running forever. Even if the data is not > stored in an easily decipherable format you could have a temp retype it. yes, indeed. However... The program is about accounting. It was targeted to SOHO, and has very little rules, hard setting for workflow and such. It did not get the steam and disappeared. Big players targeted large-scale companies, making "platforms", and relying on value-adding resellers, making "configurations" (set of rules and sub-programs) usable for SOHO. They were not interested to this program with little niche. Up to the point, that some documents, needed as process originators, in latter, were not required in that SOHO program at all. Less the company - less the formalism. And the laws for accounting changed many times in those 10 years. It is no less spaghetti, than phone operators plans... My mom knows nothing about programming, i know nothing about accounting and myriad of laws and their editions. I don't think she remembers exactly all those gotchas and edges in 10-years-ago laws too :-) Sincerely, i think that chances that those data would ever be requested, are invisibly minor. But the accountant fever just says "NO! NO! DON'T EVER DARE!" And even if some tool would allow migration, there would be no sane way to check that migration was really full and accurate. And that old box... with mainboard whose PS/2 jack sometimes sounds like sparks... IF one day it would REALLY bee needed and it would refuse to boot... I hope never :-) But still.... VirtualBox ? VMWare Server (it's free AFAIR) ? DosBox ? I'd prefer VBox, if there be standard way to put required data into those last 13 BIOS bytes :-) -- Написано в почтовом клиенте браузера Opera: http://www.opera.com/mail/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Simplify data backup and recovery for your virtual environment with vRanger. Installation's a snap, and flexible recovery options mean your data is safe, secure and there when you need it. Data protection magic? Nope - It's vRanger. Get your free trial download today. http://p.sf.net/sfu/quest-sfdev2dev _______________________________________________ VBox-users-community mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community
