Odd mac request...
Hello everyone, been somewhat distant for a while it seems.... Well anyways to the point. My english teacher has an old mac IIsi with mac os 7.5.3, and a new G4 Ibook with OSX. She has various english related documents on the old mac's hard drive that she wishes to have on the ibook. I don't know about trying to network the two systems, as it would be somewhat difficult. The old mac has a floppy drive, the ibook does not. What I have in mind is this: I want to find a program that will let me make an image of the old macs hard drive, and let me copy files out of the image (using a windows based computer to do this with the mac drive as a slave). I then need to put the documents onto a cd (that the ibook will read). Anyone have any ideas? The old mac has word perfect 3.0, the ibook has ms office for mac 200x(I forgot which year, but it's quite new). Any idea if word will open the old word perfect files?
Also, if the hard drive image idea is a bad one, are there any programs for windows that will let me read data from floppies written from a mac? If I can just use a floppy or two then that would prevent having to take her machine apart to get the hard drive out (and transport it home, and put it in one of my computers, etc...) If that's possible I could open them in word for windows, and convert them into a word document, which might make opening them on the ibook much easier.
Go ahead, give all the ideas you guys can, I have never used a mac of any kind extensively, so I am a bit clueless about them.
Also, if the hard drive image idea is a bad one, are there any programs for windows that will let me read data from floppies written from a mac? If I can just use a floppy or two then that would prevent having to take her machine apart to get the hard drive out (and transport it home, and put it in one of my computers, etc...) If that's possible I could open them in word for windows, and convert them into a word document, which might make opening them on the ibook much easier.
Go ahead, give all the ideas you guys can, I have never used a mac of any kind extensively, so I am a bit clueless about them.
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in my lifetime and didn't mess with them but
Is there any possibilty that you could borrow a
USB jumpdrive? I believe they work with at least
some Apple products.
Thump
~Duff
Right There... I dont know where you come from but 30 Bucks insn't expensive...
What about internet capabilities? That was a good
idea Chigowolfs had. He could send it to a gmail
account. It's probably worth exploring.
Sorry I was no help.
Thump
if the old mac has a modem... he could upload it to FTP like warpy said or to an email like chicowolf said...
the "mactop" should have internet capabilities