[Hidden-tech] Syquest drives/ Pagemaker 6 ?

[David Spound]

Hi Jim,

Boy does your message take me back! Pagemaker 6 might date back to when our
boys were at Sunnyside!

Your old Mac Syquest drive probably has a SCSI connector. So to get the file
off of the cartridge, you¹ll either need a very old Mac that still has SCSI
or else you¹ll need to buy some sort of SCSI to USB adapter (there are some
available) so you can connect to a newer Mac. I seem to recall that there
were several sizes of Syquest cartridges. I think I had both 44 and 88
megabyte drives. I still have one of those drives in a box of ³junk² in my
garage.

Also, those cartridges may not have stood the test of time. They were
finicky (to say the least), so if you are able to get a successful
connection I recommend that you copy every file that you would like to keep.

Adobe InDesign can import old PageMaker files, so that may be your best bet
there. And then after importing, you could export it to PDF or some other
format from which you could build a web page. Here¹s a link that my be
helpful.

http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/324/324329.html

Regards,

David

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David Spound, M.Ed.
Valley Mindfulness

(413) 219-0654
david at valleymindfulness.com
http://www.valleymindfulness.com



on 10/13/10 10:07 AM, Jim Ault at james.m.ault at gmail.com wrote:

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> Hi everyone,
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> I produced a booklet in print and pix to accompany a documentary film I
> produced. It's on a Syquest disk in Pagemaker 6. Now I'd like to put those
> materials online. How can I get them from that disk in a usable form??? An
> exercise in technical archaelogy, I imagine!
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> Jim Ault

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