I don't know Macs, I have never known Macs, and unless someone starts giving them away, I will never know Macs. I can only go on what my rellies (who have only ever had Macs) told me. Try READING my first message again and you will see that I only reported what my rellies told me. When they tried to transport the data across, the new confuser advised that the info. was in a format prior to the new confuser and wouldn't accept it. -- Bob JONES Where does your lap go when you stand up? "Dave Hinz" <DaveHinz@gmail.com> wrote in message news:618qe3F1u6j48U1@mid.individual.net... > On Sun, 10 Feb 2008 01:08:32 GMT, Bob Jones <rjo25512@bigpond.net.au> > wrote: >> >> Unfortunately, Macs aren't as "robust" as you think. I have some senior >> rellies that are Mac tragics and have found that not all Macs are >> backward >> compatible. They have recently bought a new Mac which has "X" OS >> installed > > Every Mac shipped in the last 7 years or so will be running some version > of OSX. > >> and which will not accept any data from their old Mac which is using a >> version "10.?.?". > > Then they're doing it wrong. OS-X is version 10. And for the first 5 > years of OS-X, it shipped with "classic" mode which would allow users to > access apps up to 10 or 15 years old. > > Please don't spread misinformation about a computer platform you clearly > don't understand. It doesn't help anything. >