Hi there,
A bit of a bomb they threw at us PC people. :)
A client brought in an Apple Quadro 650 with hopes that we would transfer his old stuff to a newer Ibook he now has.
Okay, the old Mac starts, we can copy data off to a floppy disk and there's only 10MB of it or so, so this sounded like a good solution.
However, there are a couple of larger-than-1.44MB files that are the problem.
We figured a zip-like program would help. So we downloaded MacZip and some StuffIt programs with a PC.
Copied them to a floppy disk, and threw on to the Mac. It reads PC floppies beautifully, copied the program from
the floppy to the hard disk, but won't start the program. And we specifically selected these programs so that they would
run on MacOS 8.0 or older.
First we got a 'open this document with program...' kind of dialogue. After selecting System or something to try, it seems to have locked on this
now, so both program files open a System info screen but do not start an install of any kind. These are .HQX files. For some reason, they have
an icon that says PC.
So, you know where we're standing. Any help on getting those big files off the system appreciated.
We usually do this from the HD directly, but this is a SCSI hard disk, and I don't think we have anything to go with it. And it would be HFS or something,
not FAT, NTFS or ext2, right? And I'm not aware of any way to connect a serial cable to transfer data between an old Mac and a PC - maybe a standard
protocol like Xmodem or Zmodem would work, but seems difficult - or what do you think?
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