you dont NEED an emulator if all you want to do is transfer files just a modem terminal program on both ends that support file transfers (xmodem zmodem etc), I use minicom on linux and zterm on the mac side.
same on network, you should be able to either access file systems either way as long as you have the software setup to do it. I have a little retro bench setup with a few computers and with my SE its a pain in the butt cause I dont have a network card, and even if the floppy worked it would mean transferring over network to my LC2 then copy it on floppy, cause my se only has a 800k drive and pc's wont write that. My other option is yanking the hard drive which is not exactly a quick and easy thing to do on a SE and place it in my pc with a scsi card, linux and the HFS tools installed to access it ... all of a sudden 19200 baud, while slow, when transferring a shrinkit achive or a disk image file is not that bad lol. On Monday, September 7, 2015 at 8:32:03 PM UTC-5, Spenser Whaley wrote: > > Interesting. So it should be possible to network an emulator to it if I > had such a setup? What specific hardware did you use and the software? I > noticed Fusion 3.0 (an old MSDOS Macintosh Emulator) appears to support the > serial and printer ports. That and perhaps I could use Basilisk. My current > PC is rather modern and doesn't have a serial port. But I have an old > Pentium machine with a 200 MHZ CPU with MMX support. :P > > Would like to see if I can network a drive to it from an emulator. 50 pin > SCSI drives are looking to be a very expensive buy, so it may be awhile > before I can get a drive for it. The 80 pin drives while much cheaper have > all been 10,000RPM drives from what I've found (looks like they were > intended for enterprise/server use) and they are known for generating a lot > of heat. I don't feel comfortable jury rigging one of those monsters in my > little old Macintosh SE. :P > > It has a serial port and I even rigged it to boot straight into Fusion > emulator at boot. So it's a defacto hackintosh but only with MacOS 7.5 > instead of MacOS X. :P > -- -- ----- 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 vintage-macs@googlegroups.com To leave this group, send email to vintage-macs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs Support for older Macs: http://lowendmac.com/services/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Vintage Macs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vintage-macs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
