[filmscanners] Re: OT Polaroid film recorder

["Wayne Simpkins" <hsimpkns@memphis.edu>]

On 3/21/02 12:23 AM, "Philip Elkin" <philip.elkin@virgin.net> wrote:

> Slightly OT but can anyone offer a solution to the following.
>
> My colleague has a Polaroid film recorder that has the driver software on
> several floppies. He has recently upgraded to a G4 Mac without a Floppy
> drive. He copied the disks onto a CDR to install his recorder on the G4.
> Unfortunately the software install insists after starting to ask for the
> disk 2 etc. I have on my PC been able to point the install in Windows to the
> disk 2, 3 etc when asked but my colleague seems to be stuck. There is no
> software on the net for his machine at Polaroid.com. So far his contact with
> Polaroid has been unsuccessful.

Has he tried using Disk Copy to create disk images of each of the floppies,
not just copy the contents, but create a mountable disk image? Copy the disk
images to a cdr. Mount all the disk images on the G4 and start the
installer.

Wayne

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Wayne Simpkins
The Univ of Memphis
Dept of Art

hsimpkns@memphis.edu

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