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How to copy a file from a 30-year-old laptop
Topics How to Copy a File From a 30-year-old Laptop How do you transfer files off an Apple laptop from 1994? It's harder than it sounds! Between a dock and a hard place A family member presented me with an interesting problem: a PowerBook Duo 280c laptop from 1994 containing a few short audio recordings he wanted to preserve. A quick analysis of the problem at hand revealed a couple things working in our favor: - The laptop still boots...
A family member presented me with an interesting problem: a PowerBook Duo 280c laptop from 1994 containing a few short audio recordings he wanted to preserve. Fortunately, a simple phone line simulator circuit can overcome this problem, and is very easy to build with some common electronic components and a 9V battery. For each unique pattern encountered, the program simply asks you to specify what it is, and subsequently remembers the answer for the next time it finds an identical-looking character.
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