Thread: How can I retrieve data from a 9.1(classic) hard drive?

Quote: Originally Posted by rockinrocker Yep. Cool, that sounds like a good idea, I hadn't really thought about trying to actually get the drive out. So OSX can mount drives from Classic OS? Should be able to. I was having a moment of fuzzy memory, so I tried some old floppy images which are Mac OS Standard - they mount fine. If you upgraded from what shipped (OS 8.0), then it would already be HFS+ (Mac OS Extended).

Quote: Originally Posted by gr8tfly I'm assuming it's a Wallstreet "PowerBook G3 Series". Yep. Quote: Originally Posted by gr8tfly The last option would be to pull the drive (it's pretty easy to get to) and use the Newer Universal adapter cable to USB 2.0. Cool, that sounds like a good idea, I hadn't really thought about trying to actually get the drive out. So OSX can mount drives from Classic OS?

i still own my commodore 64, and that is sad.

Duh, of course I meant 20 M B These were the days of System 6 and Hypercard. Yes children, we were browsing offline in 1988, before there was a line to be on

Quote: Originally Posted by vessel this is the EXACT answer i was looking for, thank you so much. in my old age (27) i am finding phrases such as "7gb is not a lot of space" to be both humorous and true. you wouldn't happen to own such a device (i guess i need an older mac or the enclosure) would you? i live in st. lou : D Nope, unfortunately I don't have one, and I wouldn't buy from any stores here either,...

I think he meant 20MB..... 20gb in '88, I bet the platters must have been the size of the pentagon lol. My first Mac was in '95 and was a 6220? Performa, 1gb HDD and 16mb Ram. That was a powerhorse Still have it too but the HDD is shot.

You can always use Linux to access an HFS partition. Either get or borrow a PATA->USB enclosure/adapter and transfer the image to your disk and later via Virtualized (if you do not have native) linux mount it and read it. But as someone mentioned... it may just mount. An older PPC mac with Classic installed may also do.

Quote: Originally Posted by OrangeSVTguy 20gb in 1988 for $500 must have been a hell of a bargain I was going to say, there's something very wrong with that statement....Perhaps 1998 would be more like it. Showing my age a little, but my first computer (a ZX Spectrum) had 48K of memory and hard drives didn't even exist. My first PC in 1995 had 4 Megabytes of Ram and a 500 Megabyte hard drive. I thought I was the man when I upgraded...

Quote: Originally Posted by vessel in my old age (27) i am finding phrases such as "7gb is not a lot of space" to be both humorous and true. Tell me about it. I remember my Centris610, it had an 80MB drive, and it seemed huge! Only after several years with that thing did I finally fill it up and have to delete a large game or two in order to install a new one. I now have 2.25Terrabytes in my MacPro.

In 1984 I purchased a 20 mb that's mb external drive for $2,400. It was huge and all I could ever need. Gasp, look at me now. I have computers with teribyte drives in them and that is a little small. Go figure. I wonder what it will be like in 2020?