[RTTY] Using Windows Contesting Software on a Mac

Peter Laws plaws0 at gmail.com
Thu Aug 16 14:59:21 EDT 2007


On 8/16/07, Ed <k4sb at comcast.net> wrote:
> Peter Laws wrote:
> snipped
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> > MS offers VirtualPC (originally created by Connectix).
>
> =====================
>
> Well, let me just say one thing about Virtual PC. I bought the
> disks, and it completely screwed up my hard drive.
>
> Luckily, I keep a "Ghost" image on another drive, so I restored
> both C and D, and threw that bunch of trash out.

We had it on my wife's G3 PowerBook years ago under OS9 so that she
could run MS-Windows 3.1 to use certain features in WP that weren't
otherwise available.

Worked great  ....  but the Windows printer drivers could not see the
Brother parallel printer connected to the USB converter plugged into
the Mac.  :-)


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