Well, that was fun, if perhaps futile.
Monitor and the secondary video card are okay. Just that when it forgets its settings (due to the dead PRAM battery I really need to remove and replace), you can't walk away during the startup process and let it do its thing, because you need to be there to hit the spacebar when it says so on-screen otherwise it apparently assumes the monitor isn't working and stops sending a signal.
Yesterday, let StuffIt run all day trying to compress the file, but it was only 1/3 of the way by the end of the day, so I cancelled that.
Put a newer version of Disk Copy on the Quadra (the version on the Quadra would only copy floppies) and used it to create a disk image for the file I needed. Once complete, I used StuffIt to compress it. Then uploaded to my FTP site and downloaded on my more modern Mac.
Unstuffed, mounted the disk image and there it was!
Began looking through it and then discovered it didn't have half the stuff I was looking for. Went back to the Quadra to see if something went wrong. Nope. Apparently, it was only in my head that it had all the info I thought it had. Still, though, it has some useful information, so all was not lost.
Monitor and the secondary video card are okay. Just that when it forgets its settings (due to the dead PRAM battery I really need to remove and replace), you can't walk away during the startup process and let it do its thing, because you need to be there to hit the spacebar when it says so on-screen otherwise it apparently assumes the monitor isn't working and stops sending a signal.
Yesterday, let StuffIt run all day trying to compress the file, but it was only 1/3 of the way by the end of the day, so I cancelled that.
Put a newer version of Disk Copy on the Quadra (the version on the Quadra would only copy floppies) and used it to create a disk image for the file I needed. Once complete, I used StuffIt to compress it. Then uploaded to my FTP site and downloaded on my more modern Mac.
Unstuffed, mounted the disk image and there it was!
Began looking through it and then discovered it didn't have half the stuff I was looking for. Went back to the Quadra to see if something went wrong. Nope. Apparently, it was only in my head that it had all the info I thought it had. Still, though, it has some useful information, so all was not lost.