Sitting in a shelf there's the internal hard drive of my parents' PowerMac 6100, a Quantum ProDrive LT SCSI with a "1994 Apple firmware" (whatever that means). If I can find a way to connect it to a modern computer through any means, I could restore old memories of the first computer I used for software development (C and C++ on Metrowerks CodeWarrior.
After that, the hard drives of the PowerMac G4 were IDE, so finding an USB enclosure was pretty easy, and I already transferred the data on a standard external USB drive. Now, with standardized external storage, virtual machines and Internet backups, information may be never lost. But before that, there is a black hole of unrecoverable data, and sadly that includes this memorable transition from Motorola's 68K to the first PowerPC computer.
Should I bother finding a SCSI to USB adapter, of should I just forget about it and relinquish that data to human memory?
Published on May 15, 2012 at 21:39 EDT
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