[voicebox]

Hi there,
I trust I am in the correct forum for this question - if not, my apologies.
I wonder if anyone out there can advise me on the best way to transfer files from a PowerBook 140, circa 1989/90, to my present 15" PowerBook, circa November 2003!
I am not at all sure how to do this; you see, all the cables I have are pretty useless - wrong connectors etc and as every one knows, USB connections were not around at that time!
The files, which include a 15,000 word thesis and a complete book, were I think, written in Word. I want to store them on CD's - and possibly give the 140 to a museum or on the other hand, I could sell it at Christie's!
Many thanks in advance
John.

[tooki]

1991, actually.

Considering the hard drive size in the PB 140 is small, there's a good chance that a few floppy disks would be enough to copy your data. You would use a USB floppy drive on the new PowerBook.

The other way is to use an Ethernet-LocalTalk bridge (or a Mac with both LocalTalk and Ethernet running Apple's LocalTalk Bridge software) and use file sharing to transfer the files.

tooki

[LORL]

I agree with Tooki...the hard drive should be about 40 megabytes, so those files should be easily transferable with some floppy disks.

[romeosc]

Originally posted by LORL:
I agree with Tooki...the hard drive should be about 40 megabytes, so those files should be easily transferable with some floppy disks.

I know it is far fetched, but....
See if anyone in your local users group or local Apple dealer has a scsi adapter for the 2 machines. I have a setup I used to transfer files for a local school, when they upgraded.

It has a HDI45 scsi adapter(for PB140) cabled to a scsi to firewire adapter(for newer PB) Works great! If you were near Memphis, I'd loan it to you.

[voicebox]

Originally posted by tooki:
1991, actually.

Considering the hard drive size in the PB 140 is small, there's a good chance that a few floppy disks would be enough to copy your data. You would use a USB floppy drive on the new PowerBook.

The other way is to use an Ethernet-LocalTalk bridge (or a Mac with both LocalTalk and Ethernet running Apple's LocalTalk Bridge software) and use file sharing to transfer the files.

tooki

Thank you tooki,
Wow - 1991 - time flies when you're having fun ... maybe I need more memory, I could have sworn it was 1990!
Again thank you for taking time to post the info tooki - I'll be buying those floppies tomorrow, along with an external floppy drive.
Best
John..

[voicebox]

Originally posted by LORL:
I agree with Tooki...the hard drive should be about 40 megabytes, so those files should be easily transferable with some floppy disks.

Hi LORL,
Thanks for the info - I'll follow it up!
Best
John.

[voicebox]

Originally posted by romeosc:
I know it is far fetched, but....
See if anyone in your local users group or local Apple dealer has a scsi adapter for the 2 machines. I have a setup I used to transfer files for a local school, when they upgraded.

It has a HDI45 scsi adapter(for PB140) cabled to a scsi to firewire adapter(for newer PB) Works great! If you were near Memphis, I'd loan it to you.

Hi there romeosc,
Good advice, thank you!
Over here in London we have a brand new Apple Store opening this next month in Regent Street (can't wait) and armed with your advice I'll pay them a visit. After some thought, a firewire adapter sounds great and would be more helpful to me than buying an external floppy disk drive ....
Best wishes to you and glorious Memphis!!
John.

[LORL]

Originally posted by voicebox:
Hi there romeosc,
Good advice, thank you!
Over here in London we have a brand new Apple Store opening this next month in Regent Street (can't wait) and armed with your advice I'll pay them a visit. After some thought, a firewire adapter sounds great and would be more helpful to me than buying an external floppy disk drive ....
Best wishes to you and glorious Memphis!!
John.

I wasn't aware the 140 didn't have a floppy drive. In that case, you are right in trying to find an alternative to floppy disks; external floppy drives are a bit pricey for a technology which has been dead (in my eyes) for years.

[Agent69]

Originally posted by LORL:
I wasn't aware the 140 didn't have a floppy drive..

It did; both the 140 and the 170 had a built in superdrive. I had a Powerbook 100 and it didn't have an internal floppy unit, but it did come with an external one.

[romeosc]

.... also the scsi interface comes in handy if you have vintage drives, scanners, etc to connect. I even have a few usb-adb adapters to take advantage of a Brother label printer that still works under OS X!