Older Powerbook System to USB?
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From: gl4317 on 7 Mar 2010 23:54 I need to migrate some files off of an older Powerbook (possibly a Wall Street, but maybe a PDQ) which has the old-style Laptop PC Card slots. Over the years, a number of accessories were produced to go into those slots, including things like USB cards, WiFi cards, etc. It has SCSI, and I have a SCSI CD-ROM writer that I could use, but I would rather not go through making all those CDs just to transfer the files. I'm thinking that the easiest way to get the files off of the thing would be to get a USB card for it. If you are in agreement, then what card would you suggest? If you disagree, then what would be your suggested route? Thanks for any suggestions. -- -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: Geoffrey S. Mendelson on 8 Mar 2010 00:09 gl4317(a)yahoo.com wrote: > If you disagree, then what would be your suggested route? Ethernet? Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, Jerusalem, Israel gsm(a)mendelson.com N3OWJ/4X1GM New word I coined 12/13/09, "Sub-Wikipedia" adj, describing knowledge or understanding, as in he has a sub-wikipedia understanding of the situation. i.e possessing less facts or information than can be found in the Wikipedia.
From: Tom Harrington on 8 Mar 2010 00:09 In article <gl4317-0703102054280001(a)69-30-10-143.pxd.easystreet.com>, gl4317(a)yahoo.com (gl4317(a)yahoo.com) wrote: > I need to migrate some files off of an older Powerbook (possibly a Wall > Street, but maybe a PDQ) which has the old-style Laptop PC Card slots. > Over the years, a number of accessories were produced to go into those > slots, including things like USB cards, WiFi cards, etc. > > It has SCSI, and I have a SCSI CD-ROM writer that I could use, but I would > rather not go through making all those CDs just to transfer the files. > > I'm thinking that the easiest way to get the files off of the thing would > be to get a USB card for it. This Mac probably has built-in Ethernet, in which case you can transfer files that way without needing extra devices. With file sharing you should be able to transfer files directly from this Mac to a newer one. -- Tom "Tom" Harrington Independent Mac OS X developer since 2002 http://www.atomicbird.com/
From: nospam on 8 Mar 2010 01:11 In article <gl4317-0703102054280001(a)69-30-10-143.pxd.easystreet.com>, <gl4317(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > I'm thinking that the easiest way to get the files off of the thing would > be to get a USB card for it. > > If you are in agreement, then what card would you suggest? one that has mac drivers. you could also get a firewire card. > If you disagree, then what would be your suggested route? filesharing is likely to be *far* easier. another option is get a card reader. the old pcmcia ones for compact flash are dirt cheap. you don't say how many files but a couple of 2 or 4 gig flash cards (also cheap) should be more than enough.
From: gl4317 on 8 Mar 2010 01:22
In article <tph-DDA9A8.22091707032010(a)localhost>, Tom Harrington <tph(a)pcisys.no.spam.dammit.net> wrote: > This Mac probably has built-in Ethernet, in which case you can transfer > files that way without needing extra devices. With file sharing you > should be able to transfer files directly from this Mac to a newer one. I hadn't thought of that. It has both an ethernet port and an infrared port (which is a bit slow, but works quite well if two of the older computers are near eachother). It also has the standard serial modem and printer ports on it that the older Mac have, but of course no modern Mac is going to have those. My first thought was the old printer port connection method, but of course anything with a USB port is going to be too modern to have one of those. I thought that ethernet required an intermediate hub in order for communication to work between two computers? This is simply an upgrade of an older system at a relative's home, so it doesn't involve a LAN being available or any of that sort of thing. Does ethernet on the Macs work like the old AppleTalk system did, where you just connect the two printer ports together? So that all I need is to run a standard Ethernet cable between this computer and a newer one, and have file sharing turned on? Or does it need to be a special ethernet cable with a crossed pair of wires? (appologies, but my ethernet experience is pretty much nil, except for a very little bit of stuff with mainframes in the very early 1990s.) -- -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. |