How to copy a file from a 30-year-old laptop
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How to copy a file from a 30-year-old laptop
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Re: How to copy a file from a 30-year-old laptop
#2I was actually expecting the author to take photos of the old laptop's screen and OCR those. This was far more entertaining.
I do wonder though... perhaps it would have been faster to have the larger fonts and let the transfer take 24 minutes. It probably took longer than 24 minutes to write the updated OCR software.
But, where's the fun in that?
Re: How to copy a file from a 30-year-old laptop
#3Well, the source site seems to be hosted on an 30-year-old laptop, and therefore unavailable (even trough archive.org), but here we go:
-If you ever encounter a situation where "well, this volume might contain valuable data" is a thing, try to make a forensically-sound copy first;
-Depending on the exact source media, this might be a very specific process. Don't skip on it, though.
But, once you have an accurate copy of the source media, feel free to run any non-destructive experiments that you'd like. After, of course, publishing the source media for fellow enthousiasts...
Re: How to copy a file from a 30-year-old laptop
#4Good story, I liked how they were almost thwarted by FCC fax regulations.
Re: How to copy a file from a 30-year-old laptop
#5Well, the source site seems to be hosted on an 30-year-old laptop, and therefore unavailable (even trough archive.org), but here we go: -If you ever encounter a situation where "well, this volume might contain valuable data" is a thing, try to make a forensically-sound copy first; -Depending on the exact source media, this might be a very specific process. Don't skip on it, though. But, once you have an accurate copy…
Someone managed to snag a copy: http://web.archive.org/web/20240531155301/https://www.unterm...
Re: How to copy a file from a 30-year-old laptop
#6The phone line simulator was very impressive.
I likely would have given up several times and just played the audio on the laptop and tried capturing it with another device (my phone) over the air.
Re: How to copy a file from a 30-year-old laptop
#7If you have OCR in the loop anyway, you could have just taken a picture of the file as displayed on the original laptop, no need to do the fax transfer.
Re: How to copy a file from a 30-year-old laptop
#8The phone line simulator was very impressive. I likely would have given up several times and just played the audio on the laptop and tried capturing it with another device (my phone) over the air.
I'd try cracking open the laptop and intercepting the audio signal before it goes to the built-in speaker
Re: How to copy a file from a 30-year-old laptop
#9This laptop has a serial port, I am pretty sure vanilla Mac is capable of transferring files over serial port. We did that on DOS all the the time.
Re: How to copy a file from a 30-year-old laptop
#10Did the laptop not have any kind of serial port to write to?