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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 01/04/2015 01:40 AM, D. Hugh
Redelmeier wrote:<br>
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<pre wrap="">| From: David Collier-Brown <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:davec-b@rogers.com"><davec-b@rogers.com></a>
| An elderly relative has a PPC iMac, the so-called "sunflower mac"
| <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/02/Imac_sunflower2.jpg">http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/02/Imac_sunflower2.jpg</a>
Nice.
A friend ran and Plan9 on one for years. He's the one who ported
Plan9 to the Raspberry Pi.
| It eventually died, but the symptoms hinted it wasn't a disk crash.
What did it die of? I assume that it was terminal (fried mainboard?).
| This apparently came with MacO OS 9.2 and a 60.0 GB Ultra ATA/66 hard drive
| (5400 RPM), so what modern machines can read Mac file formats? I have an
| Ubunutu-based PVR with an ATA interface that's doing the DVD right now, could
| I read it from Linux? My old SPARC read Mac SCSI formats...
(I'm not sure what "doing the DVD right now" means.)
I take it that you don't need to get them up and running again. If
you did, I would imagine that the most straight-forward method would
be to feed the disk to a modern Mac. They surely have migration
tools.
I'd try a PATA to USB gizmo because modern Macs don't do PATA. If you
need to borrow one, I have one.
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<big><font size="-1"><big>Yes, I'd love to borrow it: my PVR has an
old parallel interface,</big></font></big> but it's in use and
I'd have to yank the DVD temporarily to try the Mac disk.<br>
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--dave<br>
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David Collier-Brown, | Always do right. This will gratify
System Programmer and Author | some people and astonish the rest
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