Archiving software from PowerBook 520C

[Caleb Hauge]

Hiya folks! I bought a PowerBook 520C the other day, and it came chock full of software! Mostly publishing software; it was owned by the founder of a newspaper in Washington state and it came with a lot of his old articles and photos for articles on it. I bought some floppy disks and an internal floppy drive for my Latitude D630 to transfer stuff to, but how do I get programs larger than 1.4MB off of the machine? Is there a piece of software I can use to split those programs up to fit onto a floppy, then reassemble them into one later on? I'm hoping to do this after work tonight so I can wipe the drive and install OS 8.
Thanks!

 

[Chuckeee]

You can use a zip or rar compression utility where it allows you to create archive that is broken into parts, where each part will fit on a floppy. You might even be able to do it using StuffIt.

I good place to search for a old utility is the Macintosh Repository

Old Mac Software Archive - Macintosh Repository

A platinum sanctuary for old software of the classic Mac OS era. Rediscover Mac treasures of the past!

www.macintoshrepository.org