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adastra22 8 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: How to copy a file from a 30-year-old laptop

Why not display the info as a series of QR images? There probably wasn’t a dev environment on the laptop though.

For the record, you’d have had no problem mounting an image of the HFS disk on any modern Linux or macOS system.

kelnos 8 months ago [–]

Well, mounting the disk itself. If it was simple to get an image of the disk, the author could have used the same method to just get the files they wanted.

adastra22 8 months ago | [–]

There are many different SCSI to USB cables out there, for exactly this purpose. Even the weird mini-SCSI interface used by Apple in the 90’s.

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