Alright so I'm sure that's a bit of a weird question but here is the situation- my PC is a Windows ME running Gateway from like 1998 or so. It's mainly an office machine and it's the place where I like to compile all of my stuff into one organized place. I do alot of stuff on my iMac "Green Morpho" and I find it soooo annoying having to transfer the files floppy by floppy. I'd use flash drives but the mac is in...

File sharing on Mac OS 9 is somewhat poorly documented, so I'll show you the WAY: Step 1: Unless you have a crossover cable, you need an ethernet switch to start file sharing. Step 2: Start up the computers. Step 3: Make sure AppleTalk is on on those machines, from either the option bar or the control panels under "AppleTalk" Step 4: Open up the File Sharing control panel on one computer. Step 5: Drag and drop your...

The issue Got yourself an old PowerPC Mac with USB ports and would like to download files from MR on a Windows PC then copy those files to an USB stick and onto the old PowerPC Mac but the USB stick doesn't want to read in both the Mac and Windows? It works in Windows but when you insert it in the old Mac, it asks you to initialize/format it? An USB stick? But what about an USB HARD DRIVE? Note that "USB stick" in this...

Dear Sir/Madam! I am from Hungary, I bought an old Apple Macintosh Powerbook 150 notebook. The notebook was dead, but I could fix it. It was a little 47uF capacitor short circuit in the power supply side.  I switched on the computer, and it runned german MAC OS 7.1.1. I wanted to reinstall the operating system on the computer. I found installer floppy images on winworldpc.com, and I wrote this to floppy disks. I have already formatted...

Sending files with serial modems   Introduction This is akind in principle to doing it with just a serial cable except that you need more stuff and different software to accomplish the same goal. So if you want something simpler to accomplish file transfer and that is more reliable, I'd recommand you do it with just a regular serial cable. This is specifically for people that want to recreate modem communications. This...