Making Really Old Floppies in the Modern Age

Intel iMac running OS X Tiger:

• CAN download from the Internet
• CAN extract files made with modern compression software
• CANNOT make 800k or 400k floppies
• CANNOT run old Mac apps like Disk Copy and DART
• CAN be an FTP server

Power Computing clone running System 7.6.1:

• CANNOT download (very well) from the Internet
• CANNOT extract files made with modern compression software
• CANNOT speak AppleShare to iMac over ethernet
• CAN download from iMac-as-FTP-server over ethernet, using old Fetch FTP client
• CAN run old Mac apps like Disk Copy and DART
• CAN make semi-old (800k) floppies
• CANNOT make really old (400k) floppies
• CAN be an AppleShare server

Asante LocalTalk-to-ethernet adapter:

• CAN allow the ethernet-connected Power Mac to speak AppleShare to the LocalTalk-connected SE/30

Macintosh SE/30 running System 7.0.1:

• CANNOT speak AppleShare to iMac over ethernet
• CANNOT run Fetch to connect to iMac FTP server
• CAN speak AppleShare to not-so-old Power Mac via LocalTalk via Asante adapter
• CAN make really old (400k) floppies using DART

So, in a nutshell...

1. Download disk image foo.img.zip and DART; extract both
2. FTP both from iMac (server) to Power Mac (client)
3. AppleShare both from Power Mac (server) to SE/30 (client)
4. Make floppy on SE/30 with DART