Power Mac G3 (beige) Pulling large files w/out network

I have an old Mac G3 from which I need to pull images. They would be large .jpgs and .tiffs so using the floppy is unfeasible. At this point, IT won't let me network it (which would solve this, obviously). Short of locating an old zip drive (one 25 pin IDE connection available in back), are there any other alternatives? I've looked at removing and docking the hard drive, but that seems to be available only if I had a USB port on the system... I really need the HD to USB to external interface, but to still connect the HD to the Mac. Thanks. MG

"Our company is strickly PC and Linux, so I don't have a Mac available to interface with."
Unless you install a software program like "MacDrive" on one of the PCs so that a Mac-formatted drive is recognized, the adapter mentioned by Allan isn't going to be of much use to you. Additionally, that type of adapter isn't platform-specific, which means that you can purchase one at a PC store and it would work with PCs and Macs. I bought/use this one, which is about half the price of the one at Other World Computing. You referenced the G3's "25 pin IDE connection available in back." That's a DB-25 SCSI bus port, and although it resembles the parallel port found on the back of older PCs, it's a different/incompatible interface. A suitable Zip drive would be a SCSI type, not a parallel port type. If you had access to a SCSI Zip drive (100 MB or 250 MB), you could transfer the files to PC-formatted Zip disks and then use a Zip drive designed for connection to a USB port, to transfer files from the disks to a PC. Depending on the OS version that the beige G3 is running, you could install a USB PCI card and transfer the files to a flash drive. Realistically, the G3 should be running OS 9.1 and you'd need to perform a custom installation of the same OS, to install the necessary USB support files. It just gets more complicated, in terms of the hardware and software upgrades needed to accomplish this. I'd recommend removing the G3's hard drive and using the USB-to-IDE adapter, which will require a software program on the PC to enable reading the Mac-formatted drive.

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