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I’m making progress in my quest to throw out a bunch of ancient obsolete technology. Today’s accomplishment: buying a Powerbook G3 (Lombard)!Permalink On twitter.com
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This -is- actually a step toward ditching obsolete technology. All my email from high school is (or more likely was) on a set of SyQuest 270 disks. The SyQuest drive is a SCSI device.Permalink On twitter.com
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Now, SCSI to USB adaptors were a thing. But they aren’t any more. The devices are no longer in production and the drivers never made the jump to Mac OS X.Permalink On twitter.com
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And modern Macs don’t have SCSI ports. There -were- some SCSI to FireWire adaptors, but those, too, appear to no longer be a thing.Permalink On twitter.com
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So, I’m buying an obsolete Mac to read my obsolete data from obsolete media over an obsolete protocol.Permalink On twitter.com
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At least there was hardware that had both SCSI and Ethernet onboard. At the time, I had a SCSI Ethernet adaptor and had to pick either removable storage or ethernet.On twitter.com