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What a bizarre, mostly useless; yet absolutely neat utility. Of course, disk space is the immediate reason why it's so impractical.

dylan604 5y ago
I'm sure Apple has an ADB->USB dongle for $19.99 that you can use to connect a larger bit of storage. Actually, did these guys have SCSI ports on the back? SCSI->USB or SCSI->TB4 would be an fun cable.
- rideontime 5y ago
  The link itself has the answers to your questions.
- klodolph 5y ago
  ADB -> USB is third-party only, somewhat rare, and they only support input devices like mice and keyboards (no storage). I don't think Apple ever made them. The only one I know of is the Wombat ADB-USB converter. (You can find plenty of converters that go the opposite way around, letting you plug ADB devices into USB.) You can theoretically put anything you want on ADB, but you'd need drivers to do anything but mouse/keyboard, and Wikipedia lists the "actual" bitrate as 10 kbit/s.
- wvdk 5y ago
  A fantastic off-the-shelf solution is already available: https://www.bigmessowires.com/floppy-emu/ https://www.bigmessowires.com/floppy-emu/ It can emulate a floppy or hard drive. I tend to use a 2GB hard drive image which makes hacking on classic Mac a delight.
  - fstark 5y ago
    The floppyemu is awesome for floppy emulation or for old HD20-like hard drives. But they are too slow for macflim. As I say on the link, you need either a real scsi disk, or, better an scsi emulator, like a SCSI2H https://store.inertialcomputing.com/SCSI2SD-s/100.htm https://store.inertialcomputing.com/SCSI2SD-s/100.htm, a RaSCSI https://www.tindie.com/products/landogriffin/rascsi-macintosh-version/ https://www.tindie.com/products/landogriffin/rascsi-macintos..., a BlueSCSI https://gumroad.com/l/bluescsi-1b https://gumroad.com/l/bluescsi-1b or a MacSD http://macsd.com/ http://macsd.com/ The Mac(s) on the video have a SCSI2HD v5.5, with 4 2Gb partitions on a microsd. I can mount the first partition on my linux to copy stuff onto it (in general via the minivmac emulator).
- sp332 5y ago
  Not ADB, but AppleTalk might have handled it.

dylan604 5y ago

I'm sure Apple has an ADB->USB dongle for $19.99 that you can use to connect a larger bit of storage. Actually, did these guys have SCSI ports on the back? SCSI->USB or SCSI->TB4 would be an fun cable.

rideontime 5y ago
The link itself has the answers to your questions.
klodolph 5y ago
ADB -> USB is third-party only, somewhat rare, and they only support input devices like mice and keyboards (no storage). I don't think Apple ever made them. The only one I know of is the Wombat ADB-USB converter. (You can find plenty of converters that go the opposite way around, letting you plug ADB devices into USB.) You can theoretically put anything you want on ADB, but you'd need drivers to do anything but mouse/keyboard, and Wikipedia lists the "actual" bitrate as 10 kbit/s.
wvdk 5y ago
A fantastic off-the-shelf solution is already available: https://www.bigmessowires.com/floppy-emu/ https://www.bigmessowires.com/floppy-emu/ It can emulate a floppy or hard drive. I tend to use a 2GB hard drive image which makes hacking on classic Mac a delight.
- fstark 5y ago
  The floppyemu is awesome for floppy emulation or for old HD20-like hard drives. But they are too slow for macflim. As I say on the link, you need either a real scsi disk, or, better an scsi emulator, like a SCSI2H https://store.inertialcomputing.com/SCSI2SD-s/100.htm https://store.inertialcomputing.com/SCSI2SD-s/100.htm, a RaSCSI https://www.tindie.com/products/landogriffin/rascsi-macintosh-version/ https://www.tindie.com/products/landogriffin/rascsi-macintos..., a BlueSCSI https://gumroad.com/l/bluescsi-1b https://gumroad.com/l/bluescsi-1b or a MacSD http://macsd.com/ http://macsd.com/ The Mac(s) on the video have a SCSI2HD v5.5, with 4 2Gb partitions on a microsd. I can mount the first partition on my linux to copy stuff onto it (in general via the minivmac emulator).
sp332 5y ago
Not ADB, but AppleTalk might have handled it.