How to get a 5.25″ floppy onto a modern Mac Warning: this post contains some serious Apple retro geekery. I’ve actually had to exercise serious restraint with the details. You may want to skip this one unless Apple II’s, Color Classics, SCSI ethernet interfaces, PowerBook 2400′s, and other Apple ephemera get your blood flowing. Here’s [...]
I was recently at a client who needed me to copy a file from her old PC hard drive — which was sitting on a shelf, per my suggestion, for a rainy day such as this. The only problem was is that I had accidentally forgotten the IDE->USB cable — rare, but it happens. I [...]
Well, for the time being this is going to me my retro computing blog, because that’s been what I’ve been putting a chunk of my spare time into lately. This all started with my desire to preserve my Apple II 5.25″ floppy disks. The short answer there: to my surprise and delight, they’re fine. Most [...]
