Macintosh Computer Images

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To use your Mac's Mail program to e-mail pictures: 1 Highlight an image in your iPhoto library or an album and choose Share→Email (or hold down the Command key to send several photos). A dialog box asks you to choose a size for the photo (small, medium, large, or actual size). The Mac mini is Apple's compact desktop computer first introduced in 2005. It's also Apple's cheapest Mac, starting at just £699/$699 (although it did used to be cheaper than that - when the 2014.

First Macintosh Computer

The Macintosh is 30 years old today. Over the next few days, we'll be taking a look at the past and future of the Mac platform, starting off with a visual history of how the computer has evolved. On my Mac, this search produces 171,499 images, and dragging and dropping that many images can cause the system to rainbow-spin for a long time or even lock up. You can probably shave down which.

To import iPhone pictures to Photos on macOS, follow the steps below:
1. Launch Photos app on macOS and connect your iPhone to MacBook, iMac, etc. via USB cable.
2. Tap 'Trust this Computer' on your iPhone when you receive a message.
3. Select photo items you wanna import to Photos for Mac. Or just choose 'Import All New Items'.
4. Pull your iPhone out of your Mac after the whole process is done.

Note: if this is the first time for you to connect iPhone to Mac Photos app, please don't undo 'Open Photos for this device' option at the top menu. If you accidently undo this option, please disconnect your iPhone to Mac, shut down and reboot your iPhone. Then re-connect iPhone to Mac Photos app to import pictures again.

To export pictures from Photos app to Mac, do as following:
1. Choose the pictures you plan to export to macOS.
2. Click 'File' on the top toolbar of your MacBook/iMac > Tap 'Export' > Tick 'Export XX Photos'.
3. Select export image format (JPEG, TIFF, PNG), Info and File Naming > Click 'Export' button.
4. Open 'Finder' on MacBook, Mac Mini, iMac desktop to search and find the pictures you export.


Making vintage Macintosh boot or system disks (and getting other software) from disk images

Introduction

If you have found this page directly from an Internet search (as opposed to a link from my disk imaging introduction page) you have most likely missed some important information. Please click to READ THIS INTRODUCTORY PAGE FIRST. It explains some generic aspects of disk imaging and why, even if you DO have a good bootable disk, it may not work.

Figure 1. My own classic Macintosh SE/30

Hardware Requirements

  • A windows XP or greater PC with a 1.44 MB drive
  • A stack of good 1.44 3.5 inch disks
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Getting Installation disk images for vintage Macs

This can be a real headache for PC users. Many of the images on the web are designed to be unpacked and copied ON A MAC, which is not much help when the Macintosh you may have just bought is not up and running. That being the case I've put the image files in a format which will allow PC users to make system disks directly via the instructions below.

There are two you can choose from.

Unzip the images into appropriately named directories. Apple Inc has made these installation images available to the public domain so there shouldn't be any copyright issues.

Which OS for which machine?

The following machines can use 6.0.8 or 7.0.1 BUT best to save 7.0.1 for the SE/30s and above. Can you animate in paint 3d. You need at least 4MB RAM to be comfortable with it and a hard drive is a must.

  • Macintosh Plus (but only with a 1.44 MB 'superdrive')
  • Macintosh SE (only with a 1.44 MB 'superdrive')
  • Macintosh SE/30
  • Macintosh Classic (You can boot System 6 from ROM with this one anyway)
  • Macintosh portable
  • Macintosh II (x)(cx)(ci)(fx)(si)
  • Macintosh LC
  • Macintosh LCII

The following machines cannot use 6.0.8. Use 7.0.1 for these ones.

  • Macintosh Classic II
  • Quadra 700, 900, 950
  • Powerbook 100, 140, 145, 145B, 170

Why only with a superdrive for the Mac Plus and Mac SE? Unfortunately it's practically impossible for PC 3.5 inch drives to write in the 800k format used by standard Mac Plus and SE drives. As far as I'm aware these disks can only be made with an older Mac.

The method

Having obtained the necessary disk images, download and install Winimage. This program is used primarily for imaging PC disks but, although not promoted as such, it can process Macintosh disks as well. The software is shareware and has a 30 day trial period. I recommend you register your copy as it's a highly useful program.

After you have Winimage installed on your PC do the following to write a Macintosh floppy disk from the provided images.

  1. Open Winimage
  2. Place a 3.5 inch 1.44MB disk in your disk drive.
  3. Go to File --> Open and open the image you want to write. The file should load successfully but you will see no files in the Winimage pane. It will be blank? Don't worry about this. Winimage can't display the Macintosh files. However, in the 'Label' box in the top centre there should be a MAC: prefix (See Figure 2). This means (although you can't see it) your image has loaded and is ready to go.
  4. Go to the Disk menu and Select 'format and write'. This will write out the disk image to the disk in Macintosh floppy format.
  5. Remove the disk, replace it with another and repeat steps 3 to 5 until all the disks required for the OS of your choice have been made. You can now use these disks in your Macintosh for System installation.

Figure 2. Winimage after loading a Macintosh image. No files visible but a MAC prefix as indicated by the arrow

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Alternatively..

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You could use Gemulator Explorer. I haven't tried this personally but it looks like this program can also write Macintosh high density floppy disk images to high density 3.5 inch floppy disks on a PC. Unlike Winimage it's free! However, it's written for Windows 2000 and below. It may well work in higher versions of Windows but I haven't tested it.

Ok, that worked. Now how do I get other software?

This involves getting disk images from the Web, then transfering them to the Macintosh for installation. It can be complicated, convoluted and difficult as image files can be a number of different formats. Some archives on the web are also damaged and files just won't work. This is often because people have simply transferred files from Mac to PC and zipped them. Doing this can cause part of the Macintosh files to be lost (their resource forks) making them difficult to use even when put back in a Macintosh environment.

There are a number of sites on the web which go into detail about older Mac --> PC transfers so I won't get specific here. Search around and do some reading. Look for binary files that are self extracting stuffit archives. Often these end with the extension .sea.bin. Files that end in .hqx should also be ok.

My advice would to be to use TransMac for PC<-->Mac transfers. Like Winimage, TransMac is shareware and comes with a 30 day trial period. Format a floppy in your Macintosh then put this into the PC drive. Use Transmac to drag and drop .bin and .hqx files onto the Macintosh formatted disk in that drive. It will decode the files at the same time it copies them. More often than not the files will end up being .sit or.sea files once they have been decoded. The former are normal Suffit files and the latter are self extracting Stuffit files. Stuffit is to the Macintosh world, what Winzip is to the Windows environment.

Macintosh Computer Images

Even though .sea files are termed self-expanding you need a program called Stuffit Expander for them to work. Download version 4.x or 5.1.2 (right-click to download) or both. Version 5.1.2 needs at least 8MB to install. One headache with Stuffit is that the file format has changed over the years. A stuffit expander of a particular version may not necessarily open a stuffit file made with different version of Stuffit. It's a case of trying it and seeing what works for your particular stuffit file.

Another good program to get is Disk Copy 4.2. This is useful for writing disk images.

Final word

I found Internet-->PC-->older Macintosh file and image transfer concepts difficult to grasp, especially coming from a PC background. The two systems were very different back in the day and information on the web seems fragmented and messy. One problem is that the term 'Macintosh' is used for all macs from 1984 to present day. Animal crossing 3ds new features. This doesn't help when web searching.

Anyway, hopefully these notes and links will help. Good luck!

Tez
Original article 29th December, 2011, Updated May 22nd, 2017





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