Dropoff in chest BEFORE 1.4 ?

Hello,

Im currently trying to make my own small program for on my server to mine a 3x3 quarry.
I wanted the turtle to drop the blocks he mined in a enderchest he has with him.

However, I read sumwhere that that is only possibru in 1.4.
Is this true?
And is there a way to do it in an older version?

BTW: If anyone wants to see the (bad) code:
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Turtles cannot interact with chests until 1.4…
Get out of Tekkit if you want to play with fancy stuff.

You can use obsidian pipes or redpower transposers. However, I'm not sure how well can turtle place those.

Turtle drops are about accurate to a 5x5 area. Easiest way is to make a 13x13 box with a water block in each corner and an obsidian pipe in the center.

The water pushes the items into the obsidian pipe, which sucks them into the chest.

er, the easiest way is to drop into a 1x1 space with blocks on all sides (turtle counts as blocking it's side). Unless the drop behavior has completely changed since 1.3, only done this in 1.4…

just place a transposer/filter (places in a fixed direction I think) and use a redstone pulse to force it to pull items out of the turtle