Re: Cleaning up my old emac

2012-06-04 Thread Denise
Yes you helped me a lot. I am not so good a decision making and you seem to understand exactly what I need. Grateful, Denise On Jun 4, 2012, at 1:53 AM, Nathanael Hasbrouck nathanael.hasbro...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 2:19 AM, Denise dmm...@comcast.net wrote: Thank you! I

Re: Cleaning up my old emac

2012-06-02 Thread Bruce Eason
Never had an emac but wikipedia shows it has a usb port. You should be able to get any old hard drive and an adapter from Memory Express or somewhere.. Some years ago I bought just such an adapter for 20 bucks and an old 40 gig from an discarded pc.. On Fri, Jun 01, 2012 at 08:03:56PM -0700,

Re: Cleaning up my old emac

2012-06-02 Thread Angelo Danio
2012/6/2 Bruce Eason bea...@techduck.ca Never had an emac but wikipedia shows it has a usb port. most of emacs have usb 1, that is very slow, but all have a firewire port: is not easy to find an external hard disk with, but is recommended, otherwise, if you have internal cd or better dvd burner

Re: Cleaning up my old emac

2012-06-02 Thread Denise
Thank you On Jun 2, 2012, at 6:25 PM, Angelo Danio angelo.da...@gmail.com wrote: 2012/6/2 Bruce Eason bea...@techduck.ca Never had an emac but wikipedia shows it has a usb port. most of emacs have usb 1, that is very slow, but all have a firewire port: is not easy to find an external

Re: Cleaning up my old emac

2012-06-02 Thread Denise
Thank you On Jun 2, 2012, at 7:56 AM, Bruce Eason bea...@techduck.ca wrote: Never had an emac but wikipedia shows it has a usb port. You should be able to get any old hard drive and an adapter from Memory Express or somewhere.. Some years ago I bought just such an adapter for 20 bucks and

Re: Cleaning up my old emac

2012-06-02 Thread j...@cimmeri.com
D, I don't usually write here but the lazy responses prompted me. Plus I need to keep my flirting skills up. I've an eMac I still use and recently went through the same process for different reasons. You'd use an external drive (as you note) plus the firewire port (as someone else