I've been trying for some time to establish a system of transferring documents from my Power Macintosh 6500 to my MacBook. In particular, I want to get the ROM image from the Power Mac 6500 over to my desktop for use in SheepShaver. I've used an external floppy drive at work for transferring files between machines from both eras, but I'd have to use a file splitter, since the files I want to transfer are larger than a 1.4 MB floppy. The Power Macintosh has the optional ZIP 100 drive for that model built in, so I could use an external ZIP drive. This has similar expenses to buying an external floppy drive. I purchased a B&W tower some time ago that happens to have USB 1.1 and a ZIP 100 disk, so I could use a ZIP disk to transfer the files, then transfer them to the MacBook using a thumb drive. I could set up a network between the two, but I've tried that before, and it doesn't seem to work well. Finally, the Power Macintosh amazingly has USB ports, which were obviously a third-party upgrade. The problem is that I've tried to use USB thumb drives in it before, but it tells me that the USB device is draining too much power. What sounds like the best approach to transferring files?
While we're on the topic, I've got a Mac SE that's not wanting to boot from the internal hard drive. I got it to boot once recently and took the opportunity to spend my only free floppy disk on creating a pared down system folder. System 6 is pretty heavy, though, so I ended up with I believe 2 KB. Just enough space for two TeachText documents. I need to find a way to get files and apps onto a 800KB floppy without any other computer from the era. Any suggestions for that?