[vcf-midatlantic] Moving files from an old 68k-Mac to an emulator or other machine

[Richard Cini]

I use the SCSI2SD for my PDP-11/23+ system. I boot RT-11 from an Emulex SCSI card. Great product too.

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From: Andrew Diller <dillera at gmail.com>
Sent: Friday, September 18, 2020 1:39:33 PM
To: vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic at lists.vcfed.org>
Cc: J. Alexander Jacocks <jjacocks at gmail.com>; Richard Cini <rich.cini at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [vcf-midatlantic] Moving files from an old 68k-Mac to an emulator or other machine

The floppy EMU is cool definately worth picking one up (for the earliest macs), there is also this for faster transfers (for Mac's that have the 25pin scsi)...

https://store.inertialcomputing.com/product-p/scsi2sd-v5.5.htm

I will note - sometimes the SCSI can be bad/flakey on systems w/ leaking caps. The Floppy port however almost always works.

-andy


On Sep 18, 2020, at 1:35 PM, Richard Cini via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic at lists.vcfed.org<mailto:vcf-midatlantic at lists.vcfed.org>> wrote:

I had no idea that existed. So it’s like a GoTek but for the Mac. Absolutely awesome. Thanks for sharing the name.

Rich

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From: Alexander Jacocks <jjacocks at gmail.com>
Sent: Friday, September 18, 2020 1:20:54 PM
To: vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic at lists.vcfed.org>
Cc: Richard Cini <rich.cini at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [vcf-midatlantic] Moving files from an old 68k-Mac to an emulator or other machine

Maybe I’ve missed someone else mentioning it, but I strongly suggest BMOW’s FloppyEMU, for archiving from vintage machines. That gives you disk images that you can directly use, in emulators. Obviously, it requires an external floppy port, to use easily, but you can connect one to an internal floppy port, as a fallback.

I suspect everyone here is aware of this, but wanted to mention it.

- Alex