Bringing an old LCIII into the future...

[newbreednet]

...no this isn't some crazy case mod like the Classic Mac Mini :D

I have an LCIII running 7.1, an iBook, a PC with a floppy drive and some floppy disks. Can I somehow make a drive image of the HD inside the LCIII (all 80 megabytes of it ;)) so that I can boot it as a virtual machine and access all my files and apps? (on PC or iBook, but preferably iBook)

Thanks,
Steve

[JAT]

Well, you can certainly make an image. What was it, Disk Copy back then?

I don't know if there is any software to emulate System 7 on OSX, though. Or Windows.

[Tallest Skil]

Well, you can certainly make an image. What was it, Disk Copy back then?

I don't know if there is any software to emulate System 7 on OSX, though. Or Windows.

SheepShaver does it on Intel Macs, provided the System 7 is at least 7.5.1.

[mckyvlle]

Or try Basilisk II (http://gwenole.beauchesne.info//en/projects/basilisk2), a 68k Mac emulator.

[SuperCompu2]

THe iBook will be able to run Classic environment, which should handle any file from 7-9.x I believe.

As long as you have a USB floppy drive to hook to the iBook or some other way of transferring the files you should be set.

[krye]

I picked 2 old Zip 100 drives off eBay for a couple of bucks each. One SCSI and another USB. I hooked up the SCSI one to my old Mac SE and using an old Iomega Tools 4.2 driver, I was able to mount the Zip disk on the desktop. I copied the entire contents of my 45M hard drive to the Zip disk. I then loaded the Zip disk onto my Mac Pro using the USB Zip drive. I copied the contents of the Zip disk into a disk image and open it up using Mini vMac. I now have the entire SE hard drive accessible under Mini vMac. It works great the other way too.

I downloaded a ton of free software and games for OS 6 and 7. I also downloaded OS 7.5.5. I then copied the contents of the upgraded Mini vMac OS back onto the Zip disk. I then copied everything back onto the SE's hard drive. It now boots into OS 7.5.5 and has things like MacInTalk and a bunch of cool classic games.

[newbreednet]

Superb. Thank you to all posters.

[maccompaq]

I know I can get an Apple IIGS to copy the 5.25 inch floppies to 3.5 floppies, but I was wondering if there were other solutions.

The floppies contain word processing and spreadsheet documents.