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Use any other kind of PC with an expansion bus to dump the blocks to a modern block device, then attach that to the Mac.
by jeffbee 9mo ago
Use any other kind of PC with an expansion bus to dump the blocks to a modern block device, then attach that to the Mac.
- itchingsphynx 9mo agoI used to be an Apple service technician. We kept an old mac that had SCSI in an expansion port and Ethernet in another for precisely this reason. I once transferred all 20MB of a Mac Plus hard drive, an author’s lifetime work, to a new iMac with this method.
- lastofthemojito 9mo agoThat's pretty delightful, to think of someone using a computer as such a pure tool like that (as opposed to a distraction machine as is so often the case). I like to imagine the author finally hit the limit of the 20MB hard drive, then decided, "you know what, rather than put 2 spaces after periods, I'll replace them all with a single space like the kids do", saving 400KB, and making room for at least a couple more weeks of work while shopping for a new computer.
- jeffbee 9mo agoUsing ASCII RS as whitespace between sentences, and only converting it to space(s) for rendering, is the boss move.
- theturtle 9mo ago[dead]
- stmw 9mo agoThat is unfortunately the likely fallback... It just feels so wasteful and inelegant.
- jeffbee 9mo agoI'm fairly confident you could string it together as a scsi-to-firewire-to-thunderbolt chain, potentially with a TB2/miniDP-to-TB3+ adapter as well, but this seems even worse to me.