Can I boot a Mavericks mini from a Tiger backup bootable HD?

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Speedy wrote:
Why do you want to do this? There may be an alternative.

I was just hoping to be able to easily access some of the information on that drive, if I need it later. I think I can transfer the stuff that has to have the older applications to my MacBook, that still runs Appleworks. I was just hoping to be able to access it directly from the drive rather than having to move the data.

I also have old emails in Entourage, but I have that on the MacBook also, so I can probably move those files over, too. I might see if the MacBook will boot from that drive, since it shipped with Tiger, or earlier, I think.