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Jan 3, 2012 8:30 PM in response to curicotinoby Appaloosa mac man,The first thing you need to do to play with any older - 1980's Mac is to use the external SCSI port. Find an external SCSI hard drive or Zip drive. Do not spend too much on the Zip drive in case it suffers from the 'click of death.' That is a technical term. Just get a return guarantee if you spend more than two bucks on the Zip drive.
You can make an external hard drive bay out of a CD-ROM case by pulling the optical drive out and replacing it with a hard drive. We never put the covers back on because they just slow us down while testing drives.
You will need to learn about SCSI ID assignments.
Once you have external SCSI options, you can take files to a bridge machine. A platinum G3 desktop makes a good transition machine, especially if it has a USB card.
The next thing to worry about is changing file structures. OS X will show a file as a generic executable file if it does not know what to do with it. Better to leave old files compressed with Stuffit until you get it to the Plus. Otherwise, OS X will tamper with it. There are smarter guys on that subject than me. I have the luxury of having several bridge machines so I have not had to learn the technical software/file structure side of what happens. I just know it happens and I change machines to get around the file corruption.
Good luck and have fun.
Ji~m
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Jan 25, 2016 1:22 PM in response to curicotinoby Kristian M,You probably already know about Big Mess o’ Wires’ Floppy Emu?
http://www.bigmessowires.com/floppy-emu/
It’s really neat!