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I would love to try something like this on my SE/30 but sadly it doesn't have any useful software on it other than a 1989 copy of MS Word and lemmings. Any idea
by PebblesHD 12y ago
I would love to try something like this on my SE/30 but sadly it doesn't have any useful software on it other than a 1989 copy of MS Word and lemmings. Any ideas how to get some new files onto it without a terminal?
- Decade 12y agoThe SE/30 at least had a PC-compatible floppy drive. If you could find a disk image with the desired software, a floppy disk, and a computer with a floppy drive, then you could transfer software that way. But a lot of Mac disk images might be in some weird Apple-proprietary Disk Copy format. I think modern Disk Utility may be able to open them. I'm not sure. I haven't tried anytime recently. Jeff mentioned a Zip drive. You could try that, too, if you have USB and SCSI Zip drives. Files are much more likely to transfer correctly if you use a Mac instead of Windows.
- mhurron 12y agoYou should be able to find a image of a Mac disk with the software needed to read FAT12 floppies. And I do mean images that you can just use dd to write to the floppy. Then you just need a USB floppy drive. It has been a few years since I tried that though.
- PebblesHD 12y agofantastic, I'll give this a go as soon as I can. I have a floppy writer in my server so I'll write it on that. Cheers guys