I guess it's lockdown boredom or something - that and I've been trying to boot a vintage Mac Plus with external drives (which it does with a Zip100 SCSI and recent enough ROMs).
With a spare Zip 100 USB drive kicking about, I wondered if I'd still be able to read & modify my bootable Zip 100 System 6.0.8 disk on my Power Macintosh 5,1 (2010 vintage) running OS X 10.13.6 High Sierra. To my utter shock, it mounted flawlessly first time. Even dragging the Zip to the trash to eject, and auto re-mounting works.
Unfortunately, it is read-only (it's a MacOS Standard format disk) - but it did format as a Mac OS Extended volume to enable writing. But since that's not compatible with Vintage Mac booting, I'll leave it out there as an "interesting but not entirely useful" fact.
What is the most surprising vintage peripheral you've managed to get working on a more modern Mac, and do you use it for file transfer between Vintage and modern Macs?
enjoy your day...
Joe
With a spare Zip 100 USB drive kicking about, I wondered if I'd still be able to read & modify my bootable Zip 100 System 6.0.8 disk on my Power Macintosh 5,1 (2010 vintage) running OS X 10.13.6 High Sierra. To my utter shock, it mounted flawlessly first time. Even dragging the Zip to the trash to eject, and auto re-mounting works.
Unfortunately, it is read-only (it's a MacOS Standard format disk) - but it did format as a Mac OS Extended volume to enable writing. But since that's not compatible with Vintage Mac booting, I'll leave it out there as an "interesting but not entirely useful" fact.
What is the most surprising vintage peripheral you've managed to get working on a more modern Mac, and do you use it for file transfer between Vintage and modern Macs?
enjoy your day...
Joe