First of all, the tones it made are probably the "death chime", which
I believe signifies bad RAM, ROM or something along those lines.
There's been some discussion about "bridge" machines recently, and I
really think that the beige G3's really fit the ticket for this for
quite a few reasons. They have ethernet and serial built in, as well
as a floppy drive and usually a Zip drive; and can run both 9.2.2 and
10.3.9. (And 10.4.11 with Xpost Facto; mine has a 466MHz upgrade
processor and it runs quite well considering) They also have SCSI, and
you can add USB quite easily with a PCI USB card. Another bonus is
internal IDE and SCSI.
Alternatively, the Pismo could work out, if you're only taking
floppies and then want to connect through ethernet. Although, if the
Floppy module is more then $20, it might be more cost effective to get
the G3, since they're about that much anyways... And, you'll have to
dual boot OS9 and OSX on the Pismo anyways, since internal floppy
drives aren't supported in OSX. I believe all floppy drives are
backwards compatible.
-Elliott Price
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On Nov 3, 2009, at 3:26 PM, PenguinSix wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> I have a Mac 512ke (with a 400k/800k drive added) along with a slew of
> more recent machines, the oldest being a Pismo and the second oldest a
> Macbook Pro from about 2006. I have a 5300cs that I kept around for
> the express purpose of reading the old 400/800/1.4mb floppies and then
> moving them onto a new system (somehow, probably by an ethernet card)
> but alas, the 5300 died a strange death the other day (8 odd tones at
> startup and then nothingness). I have an ethernet card for the card
> for the 5300 (Global Village Powerport Platinum Pro) so I was hoping
> that if the 5300 could handle all those formats, I could use it as the
> 'bridge' to move the data from the floppies to my newer systems.
>
> So I'm looking at disk conversion services for the 20-30 diskettes,
> but then got to thinking is there a machine on Ebay that could serve
> as a good 'bridge'? Was the 5300, with an ethernet connection, the
> right machine for the job? Or should I get an internal Superdrive
> floppy drive for the Pismo (does it read 400/800/1.4mb?). Or maybe I
> should step back to a slightly older machine?
>
> My Mac512ke is still running fwiw.
>
> >
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