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Vintage Macs: How Do You Get Files off Your 68000?
By Remy Davison, Insanely Great Mac
February 3rd 2003
Your mission: to get files off a Compact Mac before it self-destructs.
Still got data on an Apple II? Still got an Apple II disk drive? Good, because you're
gonna need it.
Getting old files off your //gs and onto that shiny new iBook may not be as easy as
you thought. You iBook doesn't have a floppy for a start. And even a USB floppy drive
won't read 800K or 400K floppies, much less do ProDOS format. It's a problem people
are frequently encountering, as an Associated Press writer found out with an old Mac
SE.
Worse still how do you get Office X to recognise those older formats, like WordPerfect
Mac 2.0 [yep, still got the complete WordPerfect 2.1 Office myself], Word 3.0 [check]
or MacWrite [got that one too].
Actually, we could offer a few suggestions. MacLinkPlus; AppleWorks 6 or
Claris/AppleWorks 5 comes with file translaters for virtually all older Mac formats.
Older versions of ClarisWorks do the same.
But how do you get the data off that old SE, Classic or Plus? Not so hard. A SCSI ZIp
does the trick, before transporting it over to your fancy USB or PowerBook Expansion
Bay Zip drive. Or you could get really radical and connect that 68000 to the net and
email the files to yourself using Eudora 1.5 or something.
There's also SCSI Disk Mode with a 1998 or earlier PowerBook, but that's no good if
you're a new Mac snob. If your 68000 is lucky enough to have an Ethernet adapter
already installed, transferring files to your new Mac will be a cinch. So long as it's
10bT.
Here's one that worked for me, although it's on the fringes of insanity: Burn a CD.
Yes, you read that correctly. All you need is an old copy of CD-R Access OptimaTech's
(can't remember the version). You also need 7.5.5 or I think 7.1 on your Classic Mac.
An old SCSI CDRW is also mandatory. CD-R Access works with 68000s and does
direct-to-CDR/RW burning, much like Adaptec's old DirectCD did, but I don't think the
latter works with 68000s. The CD will only copy over at 1x speed, but that's okay,
and you can rescue a whole heap of stuff on 700MB. If you're planning on actually
doing this, use a CDRW, as the term 'buffer underrun" occurs frequently when
attempting this kind of salvage job.
But I'm sure you have much better ideas. And better things to do with your time...
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