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jeffbeetoday at 6:56 PM2 repliesview on HN

Use any other kind of PC with an expansion bus to dump the blocks to a modern block device, then attach that to the Mac.


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itchingsphynxtoday at 7:54 PM

I used to be an Apple service technician. We kept an old mac that had SCSI in an expansion port and Ethernet in another for precisely this reason.

I once transferred all 20MB of a Mac Plus hard drive, an author’s lifetime work, to a new iMac with this method.

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stmwtoday at 8:00 PM

That is unfortunately the likely fallback... It just feels so wasteful and inelegant.

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