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0 pointsadastra221y ago0 comments

Why not display the info as a series of QR images? There probably wasn’t a dev environment on the laptop though.

For the record, you’d have had no problem mounting an image of the HFS disk on any modern Linux or macOS system.

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Well, mounting the disk itself. If it was simple to get an image of the disk, the author could have used the same method to just get the files they wanted.

adastra22OP1y ago

There are many different SCSI to USB cables out there, for exactly this purpose. Even the weird mini-SCSI interface used by Apple in the 90’s.

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0 pointsadastra221y ago0 comments

Why not display the info as a series of QR images? There probably wasn’t a dev environment on the laptop though.

For the record, you’d have had no problem mounting an image of the HFS disk on any modern Linux or macOS system.

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kelnos1y ago

Well, mounting the disk itself. If it was simple to get an image of the disk, the author could have used the same method to just get the files they wanted.

adastra22OP1y ago

There are many different SCSI to USB cables out there, for exactly this purpose. Even the weird mini-SCSI interface used by Apple in the 90’s.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse