| From: David Collier-Brown <davec-b@rogers.com> | An elderly relative has a PPC iMac, the so-called "sunflower mac" | http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/02/Imac_sunflower2.jpg Nice. A friend ran and Plan9 on one for years. He's the one who ported Plan9 to the Raspberry Pi. | It eventually died, but the symptoms hinted it wasn't a disk crash. What did it die of? I assume that it was terminal (fried mainboard?). | This apparently came with MacO OS 9.2 and a 60.0 GB Ultra ATA/66 hard drive | (5400 RPM), so what modern machines can read Mac file formats? I have an | Ubunutu-based PVR with an ATA interface that's doing the DVD right now, could | I read it from Linux? My old SPARC read Mac SCSI formats... (I'm not sure what "doing the DVD right now" means.) I take it that you don't need to get them up and running again. If you did, I would imagine that the most straight-forward method would be to feed the disk to a modern Mac. They surely have migration tools. I'd try a PATA to USB gizmo because modern Macs don't do PATA. If you need to borrow one, I have one.