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From: Tom Harrington on 9 Mar 2010 12:41 In article <gl4317-0803102204450001(a)69-30-10-135.pxd.easystreet.com>, gl4317(a)yahoo.com (gl4317(a)yahoo.com) wrote: > Thanks very much to all who responded. > > I've not got the computer that will replace the old one yet (though there > are several options I am looking at). For certain it will be recent > enough to support 10.something or other. The old one that will be > replaced supposedly will not run anything later than 9.2, though > apparently some people have had some success pushing the Wall Street G3 > further than that. (From the description, this sounds like a Wall Street, > but the problem is that it has been so heavily used by previous owners > that its nameplate has been rubbed clear of the writing, so exactly what > it is is unclear.) > > So, from the sounds of it, the Ethernet method is the way to go. That is > what I will attempt to do. If the newer Mac has Firewire, another option would be to just put the older one into target disk mode and plug it into the new one. It'd work just like an external hard drive and you could easily copy whatever data you wanted. Unfortunately this doesn't work with USB, and not every newer Mac has Firewire, but if it does then this approach would be even easier than Ethernet. -- Tom "Tom" Harrington Independent Mac OS X developer since 2002 http://www.atomicbird.com/
From: nospam on 9 Mar 2010 12:45 In article <tph-CCBC42.10411609032010(a)localhost>, Tom Harrington <tph(a)pcisys.no.spam.dammit.net> wrote: > > The old one that will be > > replaced supposedly will not run anything later than 9.2, though > > apparently some people have had some success pushing the Wall Street G3 > > further than that. (From the description, this sounds like a Wall Street, > > but the problem is that it has been so heavily used by previous owners > > that its nameplate has been rubbed clear of the writing, so exactly what > > it is is unclear.) > If the newer Mac has Firewire, another option would be to just put the > older one into target disk mode and plug it into the new one. It'd work > just like an external hard drive and you could easily copy whatever data > you wanted. Unfortunately this doesn't work with USB, and not every > newer Mac has Firewire, but if it does then this approach would be even > easier than Ethernet. not every older mac had firewire either. wallstreet and 101 didn't have firewire. pismo was the first mac laptop with firewire.
From: gl4317 on 12 Mar 2010 00:49 In article <tph-CCBC42.10411609032010(a)localhost>, Tom Harrington <tph(a)pcisys.no.spam.dammit.net> wrote: > If the newer Mac has Firewire, another option would be to just put the > older one into target disk mode and plug it into the new one. It'd work > just like an external hard drive and you could easily copy whatever data > you wanted. Unfortunately this doesn't work with USB, and not every > newer Mac has Firewire, but if it does then this approach would be even > easier than Ethernet. I'm thinking it is probably a Wallstreet PDQ. On the left side there is a modem port and two PCM/CIA card slots. In the back there is a high density SCSI port, ADB port, and two old-style Apple serial connectors. It also has the infrared file sharing port that was popular in the Powerbooks before high speed wireless became so much more available. So, Firewire is not an option on something of this age. It predated the common use of Firewire - not to mention pre-dated USB replacing Apple Desktop Bus, and quite a number of other things taken for granted on modern Macs. I wouldn't mind setting up the infrared port either, since the transfer time isn't that critical (I can let the compters talk for a few days) but I don't think there is a FireWire or USB to infrared port product on the market for the newer Macs that lack that particular communication device. With the advent of wireless networks, there was no need for such a slow Mac to Mac communication method. -- -Glennl Please note this e-mail address is a pit of spam, and most e-mail sent to this address are simply lost in the vast mess.
From: gl4317 on 16 Mar 2010 00:36
Thanks to you people, over the weekend I was able to get the two computers to talk to eachother using Ethernet. I was never able to get the newer Mac to talk to the older one, but I was able to get the older Mac to talk to the newer one, so I wound up feeding the files from the new one to the old one, rather than reading from the new one. It was really easy to do, once I tackled the problem from the old Mac end rather than the new Mac end. -- -Glennl Please note this e-mail address is a pit of spam, and most e-mail sent to this address are simply lost in the vast mess. |