Hi Martin, If the gentleman is asking to keep it simple, then keep it simple! While the SE and System 6 are rather talented, you are asking this machine to support hardware and software which came well after its time. While it will work in some cases, it won't work in others, and is overkill in yet others.
On Tue, 15 Oct 2002, Martin A. Totusek wrote: > 1) An External APPLE Floppy Drive for Mac SE (MAKING SURE that it's the > one that can read 1.4 MB Floppy Disks The simple answer is don't bother. Certain versions of the SE could support superdrives. These would already have an internal high density drive. The other versions would not support high density drives unless you replaced a chip on the mainboard. That chip is going to be hard to find. > 2) External APPLE CD-ROM Drive (SCSI) 4x or 8x (8x is better), that is > compatible with an SE and/or a CLASSIC. A 2x or 4x drive will be more than satisfactory. An 8x drive would use about 25% of the theoretical thoroughput of the SE SCSI bus. It is unlikely that you would see a difference. Besides, most 68000 era applications which use the CD-ROM would be designed for 2x units. > 3) External SCSI Hard Drive [...] shoud be no larger than 2 GIG Again, 2 GB is overkill for software which can run from floppies or 40 MB drives. 500 MB drives appear to be plentiful on the used market and are cheap. Almost any brand will work in the SE, but you may need special software to format it. > 5) 250 MB external SCSI Iomega Zip Drive (Does the Computer Store still > have these in stock?). I have used the 100 MB Zip and 230 MB SyQuest on these machines. They work fine. Both should be plentiful on the used market and should be much less expensive than a new 250 MB unit. (Does Iomega even make a 250 MB SCSI Zip drive?) A 250 MB Zip drive is plenty large enough to serve as a hard drive, so you really shouldn't need both. :-) > 6) Mac OS 6.0.8 (aka System 6.0.8) 800K Floppy Disks (as I found that > mine have now died after all these years), and does anyone have or know > how to make a bootable Mac OS 6.0.8 CD-R? This is available as Disk Copy disk images from the Apple FTP site. 800kB and 1.4MB versions should be available. You will probably have to use the 1.4MB images to get your Classic up and running. You can then create 800kB disks on the Classic. It is doubtful that any of these machines can boot from CD-ROM. None of them will be able to boot from a non-Apple CD-ROM. > a) Which software(s), and/or drivers and/or extensions are needed to > allow CD-ROM drives to mount under Mac OS 6.0.8, Mac OS 7.1 with Update > 3, and Mac OS 7.5.x, on a Mac PLUS (I know that you can't boot a PLUS > via a CD-R), an SE and/or a CLASSIC? There are both Apple and third party drivers. CD Sunrise is free, works under System 7.x (maybe System 6 as well, I forget), but will only read HFS CDs. Apple does have Systm 6 compatible CD-ROM drivers (I have them on a developer CD somewhere), but they tend to work with a limited number of drives. > b) Which external SCSI CD-R burners work with an SE and/or a CLASSIC? Burners will be limited to reading disks on the SE and Classic. First of all, it is doubtful that the necessary software is available. Even then, it is doubtful that you could keep the burner's buffers full. (My 20MHz 68030 based IIci will only burn full CDs at 1x.) Byron. -- System6 is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... 123Inkjets.com <http://lowendmac.com/ad/123inkjets.html> Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> System 6 Heaven <http://www.euronet.nl/users/mvdk/system_6_heaven.html> System6 info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/system6.html> Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/system6%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
