All,
You might also post this question to the BitCurator User Group - dealing with digital forensics, media migration, and emulation for access to files from older OS.  https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21forum/bitcurator-users

Also, the bwFLA emulation as a service that is available from the University of Freiburg is worth looking into as well.  http://bw-fla.uni-freiburg.de/

Kari

Kari R. Smith, Digital Archivist
MIT Libraries, Institute Archives and Special Collections
617-258-5568  |   smithkr (at) mit.edu
http://libraries.mit.edu/archives/

-----Original Message-----
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Richard Sarvas
Sent: Thursday, April 23, 2015 3:59 PM
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Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Mac OS 9 emulator

For data transfer between old virtual Mac drive volumes (and CDs) , I used to use a free program called "HFSExplorer" on Windows, but being written in JAVA it might work on other platforms. The source code appears to be available for download as well.

http://www.catacombae.org/hfsexplorer/

Another option might be to create an old Windows NT or 2000 system with "Services for Macintosh" installed to directly read old Mac drives or to connect legacy Mac hardware over a network.


Rick

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From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Schmitz Fuhrig, Lynda
Sent: Thursday, April 23, 2015 3:04 PM
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Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Mac OS 9 emulator

Typically we are trying to access the data and transfer it for preservation work. There could be cases though where the data will need to be in the emulated environment in order to replay. We can't always predict what types of records we are going to get from across the Institution. We have encountered CDs and diskettes that will only read in the OS 9 environment and won't even be recognized in OS 10.x.

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-----Original Message-----
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Richard Sarvas
Sent: Thursday, April 23, 2015 2:37 PM
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Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Mac OS 9 emulator

Lynda,
Do you need to use the data on the file system in an emulated environment or are you just trying to access the data on the file system created by OS9?


Rick


-----Original Message-----
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Kyle Banerjee
Sent: Thursday, April 23, 2015 1:38 PM
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Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Mac OS 9 emulator

On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 10:20 AM, Schmitz Fuhrig, Lynda < [log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Thanks for the responses.
>
> We actually need to read media within it so Virtual Box would not work 
> for us.
>

Could you say a bit more about your use case? Some applications such as dealing with archival materials might actually require actual hardware in which case ebay may be the best option.

kyle