Pin Scsi
Transfer files from Mac to Mac?
How would I transfer files from a horribly old Mac, that only reads and writes on 1.44 floppies, and had a 50 pin SCSI HDD, to a newerish iMac, not the newest of iMacs, the large monitor instead of the flatscreen....the files are bigger than 1.44 and I need to know the cheapest way...is there a possible way I could network them together customizing a Serial to USB cord or something of that nature?
the old mac is a Macintosh 128k
I will tell you what I think you need. If you send this Q in again, PLEASE mention exactly what model of computers and operating systems you are using. This type of information will help more than you can imagine. I am an expert on Macs but I can't give you all seventeen answers based on seventeen different possible combinations of hardware and operating system.
If you have a Mac with floppy disk drive, it must be around fifteen years old and probably does not have Firewire, USB or standard ethernet. You have several choices for sharing files. The first question to ask yourself is whether these files are this important. After all, they are very old and may need very old applications to open them. Can you actually use the files on your ten year old iMac? Will you be able to use the files on the next computer you buy?
Option 1: Send files by email attachment. I doubt you have any files larger than 5 MB since the old Mac probably has a 5-10 MB drive.
Option 2: Buy an ethernet to LocalTalk adapter and some LocalTalk cables and phone wires. Details of setting up a LocalTalk network are available on the Web, one such page is linked below, a picture of a LocalTalk-to-ethernet adapter is linked below. The old Mac will connect to the network by printer port and networking is done in the "Chooser".
Option 3: Buy a floppy drive that will connect to your iMac by USB. Then you will need a file splitter-combiner application such as DiskFit which may be long gone but available from some old CD "Free Software" collection that came with an old book about Macs. That's where I got mine years ago.
Option 4: Find someone with a middle-aged Mac that has SCSI connection and ethernet. Remove the drive from your ancient Mac, install it in the middle-aged Mac and network it to your iMac or, if the middle-aged Mac has a CD burner, Bob's your uncle.
Edit: The Macintosh 128K (see blog link below) was the original Macintosh from 1984 with a value of about 12 dollars by real hardware figuring but more like 100 dollars if in mint condition as a collector's item. Two curiosities are that you say it has SCSI which I thought was first available on the Macintosh SE in 1987 and a 1.44MB floppy drive that should have become available as an option in 1987 also. The original Macintosh 128k had a 400kb floppy drive and no hard drive at all. You booted with a flooppy and then switched to an application floppy. The operating system just hung out in memory (as it mostly does even in todays computers) and so long as nothing weird happened, it just plugged along. In those days, the system was so simple little could go wrong.
But whatever you have seems to be a 1990s Mac so it must have a serial printer port that serves as the network port and can communicate by AppleTalk protocol through LocalTalk cabling. In other words, the 4 options mentioned above are still your only choices. You may need to update the operating system if it is pre-1993. System 7.5.3 free download that fits on 19 floppy disks is linked below. Install that and you should be able to share files by AppleTalk (an option in the Chooser) with another Mac running up to OS 9.2 ... or if you really know what you're up to, OS X.
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