We have an old Mac running OS9.0 mainly because we have a very expensive scanner and Apple decided at some point in the past to not support SCSI (despite them being SCSI evangelists).
So after the the iMac crashed and could not be revived (a big shout of thanks to Diskwarrior which managed to recover practically all of the files) I thought it would be prudent to back up the OS 9.0 Mac. I plugged in my trendy Firewire external hard drive and, yes you guessed it, the older OS smoked the drive. (once again a big thanks to Disk Warrior for a pretty much complete recovery of data).
What have we learned from this? Apple upgrades their hardware and OS without ANY regard to previous models. I guess the reason they do this is because they can, unlike Microsoft, who just make the software and their hardware vendors drive them to support practically everything from he past.
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