[G4] Extracting Program Data

[sr ferenczy]

I do not believe apple has any plans of stopping support for the 
classic environment THROUGH os x. classic works fine on my 2x2ghz G5, i 
just cant boot into os 9.

sandor

On Mar 31, 2004, at 5:27 AM, Anne Keller-Smith wrote:

> Hi -
>
> Would Graphic Converter get data out of documents created
> in Classic programs? I see an issue coming up on my next
> machine purchase as my understanding is OS9 and the Classic
> emulator will no longer be supported.
>
> I am upgrading everything for OSX, but there's still data
> in old programs. I can keep an old machine around to read
> the data and print it out, I suppose. Formatting isn't real
> important, it's the data.
>
> Specifically -
>
> Excel98 - am planning to begin using Appleworks for this stuff,
> hoping that I can import all old Excel sheets into Appleworks.
>
> EudoraPro 3.1 - am using Mail now, but Mail hasn't yet managed
> to import all old mail. If I leave the old mail in Eudora, how do I get
> it out should I not be running any OS9 at some point in the future?
> (I am taking some of this old mail and copy/pasting it into TextEdit
> as an interim solution.)
>
> PalmOS - a flaky program, so wondering should I make screenshots
> of my calendar and address books from time to time, but this seems
> like a really cumbersome way to ensure the data doesn't get lost.
>
> An opposite issue, if my main OSX machine crashes, and I have
> to use my OS9 laptop for awhile, I imagine screenshots
> (.pdf format) might be accessible in Adobe Acrobat, while
> Textedit files (.rtf format) might be available in any word processor.
>
> Any thoughts? What are your strategies?
>
>
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