Sorry, it was Cathy who was resisting, not you! Yes, I've been using Macs since the 80s, too, when I persuaded my then employer to buy one. For my own business in 1990 I started with one of those that looked like a portable TV, then had an early laptop - horrendous price but turned out to be well worth it. How did Mac do it - 4MB RAM and 40MB memory that would run Quark XPress? I only sold it a couple of years ago - still running - to a collector. I bought a laptop (running Windows) in the 90s on cost grounds (so I thought, oops) but it wasn't a happy time, so I came back to Mac in 2007. Sorry for getting off topic - enthusiasm overload... Tony 9967 On 3 December 2012 11:27, Cordelia Hull <[email protected]> wrote: > Macs are just wonderful. I have been using one since 1984 (not the > SAME one, obviously - I have a MacBook now) and I have never had any > troubles, ever - no crashes, no viruses, no stuff-ups at all. I use > Reunion for my family history stuff, which is great. And nowadays you > can get just about anything to run on a Mac - except the SMI :-) > > But all is not lost. I have a non-genealogical friend with a PC who > has agreed to let me use my SMI CD on his machine. > > Cordelia > 14526 > > -- _________________ Tony Holkham * Writer * *www.tonyholkham.co.uk*

To be fair, the SMI is not the only thing that is troublesome. I bought the LDS 1881 Census some years ago, when I was using a PC running Windows XP. Since switching to Vista and later Windows 7, I find it will not run on either OS. A shame, as I found it very useful. I know the FamilySearch site allows access to the 1881, but you cannot browse it to find neighbours in the same was as you can with the CDs. If anyone has come up with a solution I would be pleased to hear it. I have tried running in compatibility mode, and it gives every appearance of installing, but then comes up with an error message. Steve Selby