Re: Cassette Capacity

[Steven Nelson <steven-nelson@uiowa.edu>]

On Nov 30, 7:33 pm, "Michael J. Mahon" <mjma...@aol.com> wrote:

> My primary archival medium is at least two copies on recently-
> manufactured hard disk drives, each of which is verified at least
> once a year.
>
> I find that any other medium is so much less convenient to use and to
> verify that I do not verify them.  Hard disks are now very cheap,
> very dense, and very fast compared to the alternatives--and it's
> trivial to migrate data to newer drives/interfaces every few years.
>
> With 1.5TB SATA drives now regularly on sale for less than $90, it's
> hard to justify any other medium.
>
> -michael

The following post is in the spirit of fun and jest, with no
disparagement meant :

Michael, good advice, but I am having difficulty doing what you
suggest.  How do you hook a 1.5TB drive up to an Apple ][ (IIe or
IIGS)?  I can't find one with the 'right' connector!  My interim
attempt at a solution involves putting the large drive on an iMac -
but how do I copy files over?  I currently use an older PowerPC
running MacOS (7/8/9) with localtalk cabling and ethernet to a
router.  Copy files over localtalk to the PowerPC and then copy the
files over to the iMac over ethernet.  Slow but works.  The PowerPC is
also running Localtalk Bridge, so the GS/OS Appleshare can 'see' the
iMac, but I can't get a 'login' connection to actually mount the iMac
drive on the GSOS Finder desktop.  Drats!

To make matters worse, when I use a cassette for transfer medium, the
iMac doesn't load the files!  Double drats!

So, backing up an Apple][ to a cassette tape seems to be the better
solution until Apple develops the OSX opsys and hardware to use the
more robust medium (tape cassette), irregardless of storage costs.
$0.02

Have a great day!

  --Steve