[NTLK] nbk in the new millennium

Michael Neville michael.neville at gmail.com
Mon Jun 18 17:50:34 EDT 2018


Great! Thanks, Dan. IIRC the Keyspan drivers gave me trouble in Virtualbox
with Win98, but maybe Virtual PC on a Mac will do better.

-MN

On Mon, Jun 18, 2018 at 3:06 PM Dan <dan at dbdigitalweb.com> wrote:

> Your best bet is to run windows 98 in emulation.  I have had very good
> luck with Virtual PC running an instance of Windows 98.  You don't even
> need slowdown.  Or at least I haven't.
>
> -Dan
>
> On 6/18/2018 10:57 AM, Michael Neville wrote:
> > Reading this makes me think there's hope for restoring a Windows backup:
> >
> >
> http://newtontalk.newtontalk.narkive.com/TEGAemeQ/accessing-contents-of-an-nbk-file
> >
> >
> > My previous experiments failed with both Windows hardware and Emulated
> > Windows on an iMac. I have the old keyspan ADB adapter which never seemed
> > to work. I then bought the FTDI cable and can sync with NCX, but I need
> to
> > restore the Windows-based backups.
> >
> > I also have an old 3com card with a working pig tail to connect ethernet.
> > The connector is yellowing and filthy, but it works!!
> >
> > Anyone get a combination of software and cables to work on a PC
> > recently-ish???
> >
> > This list has save me hours of frustration over the years; you folks are
> > awesome! Thanks for any assistance.
> >
> > -Michael
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