Use any other kind of PC with an expansion bus to dump the blocks to a modern block device, then attach that to the Mac.

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itchingsphynx 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I used to be an Apple service technician. We kept an old mac that had SCSI in an expansion port and Ethernet in another for precisely this reason.

I once transferred all 20MB of a Mac Plus hard drive, an author’s lifetime work, to a new iMac with this method.

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lastofthemojito 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

That's pretty delightful, to think of someone using a computer as such a pure tool like that (as opposed to a distraction machine as is so often the case).

I like to imagine the author finally hit the limit of the 20MB hard drive, then decided, "you know what, rather than put 2 spaces after periods, I'll replace them all with a single space like the kids do", saving 400KB, and making room for at least a couple more weeks of work while shopping for a new computer.

	▲	jeffbee 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Using ASCII RS as whitespace between sentences, and only converting it to space(s) for rendering, is the boss move.

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theturtle 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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stmw 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

That is unfortunately the likely fallback... It just feels so wasteful and inelegant.

	▲	jeffbee 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I'm fairly confident you could string it together as a scsi-to-firewire-to-thunderbolt chain, potentially with a TB2/miniDP-to-TB3+ adapter as well, but this seems even worse to me.