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... after a few gentle taps on the hard drive to get it to spin up!
The audio files play back locally through the l...
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