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Gereen
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on: November 18, 2009, 23:13
Hey all  I have a Macintosh SE (with HD) running System 7.5, and I'm trying to install some applications on it. Since I believe that the only way is to move it into a floppy disc, I have an external floppy disc drive, that doesn't work on Mac OS X, but do on a Windows PC. What I do is that I download the application (typically a .sit file), extract it from my MacBook Pro, move it to my Windows PC, copy it to the floppy disk and pop it into my Mac SE. I can see all the files that are on the disc, but their icon is just a sheet with "PC" on it, and when I double-click them, it just tells me that it didn't recognize the file format. What am I doing wrong? It's not any particular app I want to run, and I've tried many different. Please help me
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dpaanlka
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1024 MB Posts: 1646
Reply #1 on: November 19, 2009, 00:28
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If you're using Windows then your floppy is MS-DOS formatted, which does not retain Mac resource forks, which means none of the apps stored on said floppy will run. That's what's going on. As far as a solution, someone else here will probably have better answers with regards to PCs.
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Lichen Software
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128 MB Posts: 252 
Reply #2 on: November 19, 2009, 03:26
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If you can find an AsanteTalk, appletalk to ethernet transducer, and a couple of phonenet connectors you could get the SE onto the network, albeit slowly. This would probably be enough to move files from your OSX machine to the SE. The SE also has an expansion slot and at one time there were ethernet cards available. Ebay could be your friend there. If you even consider that route, just remember that there is a CRT inside this thing that can discharge with a deadly whollop, working space inside is very tight and you will need a long torx driver to get in.
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wove
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1024 MB Posts: 1363
Reply #3 on: November 19, 2009, 06:25
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If you can see the files on the Mac then your SE is reading the disks fine. Stuffit files (.sit) will transfer over intact on PC floppies. The trick then would be to get Stuffit 5 installed on your SE so you can extract the files directly on the SE. You can find Stuffit Expander 5, on the System 7 Today site under the important updates section. (Click the software guide at the bottom of the window then look for the important updates link.) Our version of Stuffit 5 comes as a .hqx file, which should decompress on your Mac Pro. The resulting installer should transfer over on either a Mac or a PC floppy. Once you have Stuffit 5 installed, you can transfer over the .sit files and work with them on the SE. Mac files do have resource and data forks which are not understood on the PC file system, and the trick is to do the transfer in a compressed format that does not rely on Mac specific format information. This link is to an old and trusted Mac site and nicely covers aspects of using PCs and old Macs together. bill
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Gereen
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2 MB Posts: 2
Reply #4 on: November 19, 2009, 19:46
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Thanks for all the replies I've got the Stuffit 5.5 installer onto my Macintosh SE, but I have problems installing it. First, in the beginning of the installation, it tells me that I need 8000 K of memory, and the machine only have 4000 (and usually only 2200 free). If I continue anyways, the screen will be covered by a gray pattern, which I can "erase" by moving the cursor around over it, like it draws something over the entire screen and doesn't redraw everything beneath it, and it constantly plays a loud beeping noise, which disappears when I quit the installer. It still works fine, but I really don't think that it sounds good. I guess that the installation could finished if I just leaved it for a while... Any suggestions?
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