Gordon
Well-Known Member
I finally broke down on Friday, and went to the Apple store and bought a much needed new machine, along with a new printer/scanner. Here's the funny thing~ Yesterday, my old original iMac was sitting on a table behind me, and I had him on, because there were some old emails and other files/programs I wanted to look at. He started popping, and then the screen faded out, and died. The power will not come back on. The last email he received was from the Apple store, congratulating me on my new Mac! I think he just was so tired, he figured the new guy could just takeover. 
Either really uncanny great timing on my part, buying the new one, or my old one's feelings got hurt, and he decided to just give up. That computer was 10 years old.
I had backed up all my data ahead of time, on an external hard drive, and I have transferred it to the new iMac, but the problem is, the old programs will not open. Apple decided not to support the older OS, or "classic environment" as they call it. So... all my pictures are fine. Photos are a universal format. That's not a problem. The problem is my old word processing documents and years and years of old email I cannot access because they are inside programs that will not open, and their file structures are not recognized by the new Mac.
There's a lot of great things about the new Macs, but to abandon their core base from years ago is really not very nice. I knew my old programs and files would not work on the new Mac, but I didn't anticipate my old machine dying the day after I purchased a new one!
The "geniuses" at the Apple store really didn't have any good solutions to my dilemma about running OS 9 stuff on the new machines. Original OS X once supported booting into "Classic", but subsequent versions since Apple went to Intel processors, do not have that option. This computer is running the latest Mac OS version: 10.6.1(Snow Leopard).
I have posted my tale of woe on a couple of Mac forums, including one at Apple.com, but so far my only real leads have been very cumbersome and technical procedures, and a little out of my league.
If anyone here knows of a way to open Mac OS 9 programs and files on an Intel-based Mac OS X machine, please let me know!
Thanks
Either really uncanny great timing on my part, buying the new one, or my old one's feelings got hurt, and he decided to just give up. That computer was 10 years old.I had backed up all my data ahead of time, on an external hard drive, and I have transferred it to the new iMac, but the problem is, the old programs will not open. Apple decided not to support the older OS, or "classic environment" as they call it. So... all my pictures are fine. Photos are a universal format. That's not a problem. The problem is my old word processing documents and years and years of old email I cannot access because they are inside programs that will not open, and their file structures are not recognized by the new Mac.
There's a lot of great things about the new Macs, but to abandon their core base from years ago is really not very nice.
I knew my old programs and files would not work on the new Mac, but I didn't anticipate my old machine dying the day after I purchased a new one! The "geniuses" at the Apple store really didn't have any good solutions to my dilemma about running OS 9 stuff on the new machines. Original OS X once supported booting into "Classic", but subsequent versions since Apple went to Intel processors, do not have that option. This computer is running the latest Mac OS version: 10.6.1(Snow Leopard).
I have posted my tale of woe on a couple of Mac forums, including one at Apple.com, but so far my only real leads have been very cumbersome and technical procedures, and a little out of my league.
If anyone here knows of a way to open Mac OS 9 programs and files on an Intel-based Mac OS X machine, please let me know!
Thanks
