If you have access to a Windows PC with both USB and a floppy drive, here's how you can move that file.
First off you need a USB stick in FAT32 format. Stuff or BinHex or MacBinary the file and copy it from the iMac to this. (You'll need a Stuffit or BinHex/MacBinary encoding app for Lion.) Second, Mac format a 1.44M floppy in the Classic. Third, Google for HFV Explorer. It's a free Windows app for reading and writing Mac formatted floppies and other media plus disk image files used with Macintosh emulators. Fourth, pop the floppy into the PC and plug in the USB stick. Fifth, use HFV Explorer to transfer the file from the USB stick to the floppy. Sixth, pop the floppy into the Classic, where hopefully you already have Stuffit Expander to extract or decode from BinHex or MacBinary format. If Lion still has the capability to write to DOS format (FAT12) floppies and you have the extensions installed on the Classic for reading and writing DOS floppies, you can move it that way with a USB floppy drive for the iMac - assuming Lion has support for a USB floppy drive. With the "classic" stuff like writing HFS* and AppleTalk and other things taken out of later OS X versions, an old PC running Windows 98SE - with a floppy drive - and internet access can be a very useful tool for users of Vintage Macintoshes. Especially with the Basilisk II emulator setup for downloading old Mac software. Given a fast CPU Basilisk II will run faster than any real 68K Mac and faster than early PowerMacs - fast enough to make internet use in a classic Mac environment tolerable. *Windows still has read/write support for FAT12 and FAT16. Since Windows 2000, Microsoft resurrected FAT12 for all media with a formatted size of exactly 32 megabytes or smaller. Why, I don't know and I never found a way to force 2000 and later to format small media FAT16 like Windows 95, 98 and Me do. Those versions used FAT12 only for floppy disks. Prior to Windows 95, FAT12 was used on the tiny 32meg and smaller hard drives of the era. -- ----- You received this message because you are a member of the Vintage Macs group. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To leave this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs Support for older Macs: http://lowendmac.com/services/
