<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">The one problem I would foresee here is that the Performa likely uses a SCSI hard drive, and that SCSI --> USB and SCSI --> FireWire devices are flaky at best. Might not be the best of all options.<div><br></div><div>Peace,</div><div>CW</div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On Aug 7, 2008, at 11:52 AM, Chris Tyrrell wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "> Hi Kat.<div><br></div><div>One possibility is to extract the drive from the Performa, drop it in an external drive enclosure with USB connectivity, then connect the USB drive to the iMac. From there, you can email docs to yourself and retrieve the mail on the ThinkPad, or copy them to a flash drive which you'd then use to transfer them to the ThinkPad.</div><div><br></div><div>The thought of removing the drive from the Performa might sound scary, but it's really quite easy, though I don't recall what form factor that machine is (some are easier than others). Hard drive enclosures are available at computer stores. For instance, Best Buy has this one for $50.</div><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><a href="http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=8774301&st=hard+drive+enclosure&lp=2&type=product&cp=1&id=1204332553274">http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=8774301&st=hard+drive+enclosure&lp=2&type=product&cp=1&id=1204332553274</a></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Later on, put a new, larger, drive in the enclosure and use it with the ThinkPad for backups.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Cheers,</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Chris</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br></div></div><div><br><div><div>On Aug 7, 2008, at 9:19 AM, <a href="mailto:starcat@letterboxes.org">starcat@letterboxes.org</a> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Hello from a new member.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">I have a Performa 636CD, got it in '94 or '95 and used it through 2001</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">when I upgraded to a used iMac.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I still have and occasionally use the</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">iMac and also recently inherited a ThinkPad (I know, I know, evil... but</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">free).<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>There are a number of files (mostly Word) on the Performa that I</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">would like to transfer to one of the other computers, but I'm at a</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">complete loss as to how to do this.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>The CD drive on the Performa is</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">read-only.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Neither the iMac nor the laptop has a floppy drive.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>My only</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">internet access right now is through an air card on the PC (I live in</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">the middle of nowhere with no other connection options except dial up).<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">I do have a dial-up modem for the Performa but no dial-up access.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">I am far from a computer expert.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I'm fairly adept at doing what I need</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">to do, but in terms of anything beyond the basics I'm useless.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I don't</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">even know whether the files would even be readable at this point - some</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">of them are 13 years old - but even having unformatted text from these</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">files would be meaningful.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Purchasing hundreds of dollars worth of stuff to accomplish this really</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">isn't an option right now, so the cheaper the solution, the better.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Thanks in advance for any suggestions!</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">kat</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">_______________________________________________</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">DMMUG mailing list</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Use this Address to send mail to the list:</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><a href="mailto:DMMUG@dmmug.org">DMMUG@dmmug.org</a></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Use this page to modify subscription options:</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; 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