Question for Mac Geeks...

[Maury Beniowski]

Years ago, I owned a Mac IIsi. It ran faultlessly for years until it finally died of old age (and upgrade-itis). I junked it but salvaged the 40meg hard drive that contains old archives I would like to retrieve onto my current Acer PC. I'm thinking of acquiring the new Mac Mini to run alongside my PC through a network. My questions are:

1. Can the newer Mac OS read older IIsi drives? or failing that...
2. How else can I accomplish this, short of finding an older system, which I would prefer to avoid?

Thanks in advance...

 

[shak]

I am not a mac geek, but i will tell you what i know

1. Can the newer Mac OS read older IIsi drives? or failing that...

OS X has an application called classic, which supports older mac applications. From what I know it supports OS 9.0, not sure whether or not it will read anything prior to that. What OS version were you running ? OS 7?

2. How else can I accomplish this, short of finding an older system, which I would prefer to avoid?

Depending on what kind of files you want to back up, if the drive is readable by OS X, you might want to consider brute force...

 

[BelowMe]

There should be no problem with your current Mac system reading an old OS 7 or above HD..just don't expect to boot your new rig from it..

BM

 

[Randy Whorewald]

Your old drive is likely a SCSI drive, so you'll need something to convert to either parallel or USB.

 

[wilde]

I thought this thread was about a new hamburger/sandwich from my favourite fast food restaurant also know as the precusor to triple bypass. My bad.