Hi all,
Tomorrow my PowerBook Duo 210 arrives and really looking forward to it. Been using Macs for nearly 20 years and decided to try a bit of vintage computing.
The spec is quite good as it comes with a few things:
PowerBook Duo 210
Apple Mini Dock
Apple External Floppy
Also have on the way an Apple SCSI Cable, HDI-30 to C50.
The question I am asking which I'm sure has been asked many times is how to get software and data onto it? I've been reading through loads of stuff on the internet but am yet to get a simple answer.
The PowerBook has 7.1 so the first thing I need to do is get it up to at least 7.5.3. There are lots of images for the floppy's on the internet but how do I get them across to the PowerBook? Would an external SCSI CD-Rom be best for this or some other solution like SCSI2SD be better? I looked into the FloppyEmu but was told this was not compatible with the PowerBook Duo. Could I create floppy images copied to floppy disks? If so, how?
What I have is the following additional hardware/software that could help:
iMac with Apple Silicon that has Basilisk II running 7.5.3. I have read that Basilisk II on Mac can't write to floppy disks but windows can. Is this correct?
Windows 10 PC
MacBook Air running Mojave. This also has VMware Fusion so could run OSX Lion for HFS support.
USB Floppy Drive
USB CD Burner
I know this is a lot for a first post but trying to find the best/easiest way to get stuff on my new (well to me) machine. I work in I.T. and this is giving even me a headache.
Thanks in advance on any replies.
Glyn Jones.
Tomorrow my PowerBook Duo 210 arrives and really looking forward to it. Been using Macs for nearly 20 years and decided to try a bit of vintage computing.
The spec is quite good as it comes with a few things:
PowerBook Duo 210
Apple Mini Dock
Apple External Floppy
Also have on the way an Apple SCSI Cable, HDI-30 to C50.
The question I am asking which I'm sure has been asked many times is how to get software and data onto it? I've been reading through loads of stuff on the internet but am yet to get a simple answer.
The PowerBook has 7.1 so the first thing I need to do is get it up to at least 7.5.3. There are lots of images for the floppy's on the internet but how do I get them across to the PowerBook? Would an external SCSI CD-Rom be best for this or some other solution like SCSI2SD be better? I looked into the FloppyEmu but was told this was not compatible with the PowerBook Duo. Could I create floppy images copied to floppy disks? If so, how?
What I have is the following additional hardware/software that could help:
iMac with Apple Silicon that has Basilisk II running 7.5.3. I have read that Basilisk II on Mac can't write to floppy disks but windows can. Is this correct?
Windows 10 PC
MacBook Air running Mojave. This also has VMware Fusion so could run OSX Lion for HFS support.
USB Floppy Drive
USB CD Burner
I know this is a lot for a first post but trying to find the best/easiest way to get stuff on my new (well to me) machine. I work in I.T. and this is giving even me a headache.
Thanks in advance on any replies.
Glyn Jones.