On 2011-06-03, Steve Hayes <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, 02 Jun 2011 13:59:46 -0700, Dennis Lee Bieber <[email protected]> > wrote: > >>On Thu, 2 Jun 2011 11:49:10 +0100, "Roger Donne" >><[email protected]> declaimed the following in >>soc.genealogy.computing: >> >>> I've just got a new computer running Windows 7 64 bit and I am migrating all >>> my genealogy data and programs from my old Windows XP machine. All is going >>> well except for the LDS 1851 census CD - I can't even get SETUP to run. The >>> CD was produced some time ago (1997) but I still find this to be a very >>> useful resource for my Devon families research. Can anyone help? >>> Roger >> >> 1997 is still possibly in the time frame of 16-bit applications. >>Such applications could be run on 32-bit Windows 9x/XP... I do not >>believe any 64-bit processor can support 16-bit applications. > > My laptop came with Windows 7 64-bit installed, but with a DVD with the 32-bit > version. When it wouldn't run most of my most frequently-used programs, I > installed the 32-bit version PDQ. > > But it bodes ill for the preservation of information collected on computers in > the last 60 years or so. So much of it will become inaccessible. Not necessarily. Lots of newer and older software works quite well under WINE, including Ohana's GetMyAncestors, PAF4, PAF5, and two versions of the (LDS) Scriptures on CDROM. PAF5 has the most difficulties, but it's easy to find a WINE version that runs it at least well enough to convert the data to some other format (like GEDCOM). -- Robert Riches [email protected] (Yes, that is one of my email addresses.)