So Much for Hi-Tech

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So Much for Hi-Tech

August 16, 2012, 04:06:24 PM

In 2001 I bought the shop manual for my '01 Grand Marquis on CD. Great space saver, not having all those big books.
Yesterday I took four old computers to the recycler after moving all my stuff to my new Win 7 64 bit machine. I should have taken the CD to the dump too, it is no longer usable.
My daughter works as a volunteer at the Appomattox civil war museum. They are digitizing old documents so they can be researched with computers.
I am going to call and tell her to make sure they hang on to those 19th century documents. People a hundred years from now will still be able to read them. I am not so sure about digitized version.

So Much for Hi-Tech

Reply #1 – August 16, 2012, 05:51:38 PM

The Constitution. No use in digitizing it.....it's already been ass-raped beyond all effing recognition..

Seriously, I understand your point. Anything can be typed up or created on a computer...those historic documents are truly one-off mods...

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Reply #2 – August 16, 2012, 06:02:08 PM

Why was the CD itself no longer usable? Did it rely on some non-updated piece of software that won't run on newer operating systems and hardware? If so, you can always use a virtual machine to load old software on. Of course this is what happens when the decision to use proprietary or closed software is made with regard to resources like this.

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Reply #3 – August 16, 2012, 08:22:03 PM

Some folks don't know anything about a virtual system.

But with a little...dare I say it....."Pirating"...you can "acquire" an older OS that can/will install on a flash drive. Connect said drive, load it first in Bios, and then run the program. I do it on my Win 7 Ultimate for some older Win95/98 era games.

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Reply #4 – August 16, 2012, 09:23:43 PM

if you get a mac.... well, what can I say..... it's a mac...mines almost 10 years old...still runs like a new one

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Reply #5 – August 16, 2012, 10:40:31 PM

Quote from: daminc;396133

if you get a mac.... well, what can I say..... it's a mac...mines almost 10 years old...still runs like a new one

My main computer is a Mac too, though only 4 years old. With the physical memory I have installed, I can run 6 virtual machines at the same time, as long as only one or two of them is some flavor of winblows.

For those unfamiliar with virtual machines, here is a nice roundup... some of them are free. I personally use the Mac version of the VMware product because it is virtually cross platform, no pun intended, and has provided me years of trouble free service.

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Reply #6 – August 18, 2012, 11:36:55 AM

You can run windows 7 in XP compatibility mode natively.