HOT 223: Using Older Hardware on Newer Computers - Legacy Hardware Compatibility on 64-bit Systems
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Leo Laporte
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🗓️ 6 July 2025
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
On Hands-On Tech, Mikah Sargent helps JP with solutions for continuing to use his professional photography equipment if he upgrades his older Mac running macOS Mojave to a newer Mac that doesn't support the older software needed to use the equipment.
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Host: Mikah Sargent
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on Hands on Tech, let's take a look at how we can keep around really good hardware, |
| 0:07.0 | even if modern software doesn't seem to support it. Stay tuned. |
| 0:12.0 | This is Twit. |
| 0:18.0 | Hello and welcome to Hands On Tech. |
| 0:22.8 | This is the show where I, Micah Sargent, take your tech questions and do my best to answer them. |
| 0:28.7 | This, of course, is the way that you get your toughest tech questions answered, |
| 0:35.7 | and you out there who are listening can email us, HOT at twitch. |
| 0:40.7 | TV, if you have questions of your own. Now, the question that comes in for this week's episode |
| 0:48.1 | comes in from someone named J.P. And J.P. writes in with the following. I work for a dear friend who passed a couple of years back, and JP says I'm still helping the family. |
| 1:00.8 | A well-known action sport photographer who shot images from 1960 till about 2020-ish. |
| 1:07.9 | So obviously, we were working prior to digital photography. So a majority of his images |
| 1:12.9 | are in physical slides. I've been helping him scan and print some of his archives. I've run into a |
| 1:19.0 | computer software slash scanner issue. We've been working with the Hasselblad FT 646 and the software. |
| 1:26.8 | The newer Apple software will not open a dot-fff file, which is what it produces. |
| 1:34.2 | The computer I'm running it on is on his legacy software of Mojave 10.14.6 to be able to keep opening the files. |
| 1:43.8 | I'm worried about the longevity of the computer, and I would love to be able to keep opening the files. I'm worried about the longevity of the computer, |
| 1:46.6 | and I would love to be able to upgrade it or buy a new one. Do you know of a workaround for a |
| 1:51.8 | software upgrade? Since Hasselblad has stopped doing it, or am I stuck keeping the computer in the |
| 1:56.7 | past? Or is there another way to scan negatives from 4-5 down to 35 millimeters that compares to the |
| 2:02.4 | Hasselblad? Still would like to be able to keep it. So let's start by talking about what's going on here. |
| 2:08.9 | The fundamental issue that you're experiencing here is the shift in macOS away from 32-bit applications to 64-bit applications. |
| 2:22.3 | And whereas some out there tried to figure out ways to support both, MacOS is an exclusively |
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