Well, got back from the local garage sale and now have a Mac SE! It just says Mac SE FDHD on the front with two disk drives, so it's probably just a 68000 processor. Came with a 40MB external hard drive, two mice and two keyboards though. They also had a lot of software with it, so now I have a system disk or two that can boot into the Mac Plus too. I checked it out and the HD is working, screen looks good and it appears to have 4MB Ram in it.
What can I do with this SE now? It doesn't appear to have an expansion slot, but maybe I'm wrong. But hey, the whole thing was probably worth the $100 I paid for it... I also bid on another Apple 40MB external Drive for the Plus and won it for $35 including shipping on Ebay. So I guess I can format that sucker on the SE and then move it to the Mac Plus maybe? Then I will appletalk the two together and can transfer files. But maybe I still need a bridge machine or method to get stuff from the internet onto these macs still... On May 29, 1:03 pm, John Musbach <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 11:17 PM, Sterling <[email protected]> wrote: > > I am going to a yard sale tomorrow where I hope to pick up a Mac SE > > with a hard drive. > > Hopefully I'll be able to make some disks from that and move them > > over. > > An SE/30+ethernet card is actually IMO the best solution to bridging > this gap. Unless you get a SE with a superdrive I believe it's called, > then it won't read "modern" 1.44MB floppy disks--just the same ones > the plus will read. A SE/30 of any kind will read 1.44MB floppy disks > and with a little work (e.g. taping over the hole) should let you > format the disk in a density that'll make the plus happy. > Additionally, with sufficient RAM and hard disk space (I put a 2GB > SCSI drive in mine and 128MB of RAM) you can install 7.5.5 and 8 with > a alternate ROM chip. With that you can install TCP/IP networking > support and communicate with a modern mac over the network allowing > easy transfer of resource fork sensitive files from a modern mac to > your old vintage buddies. Alternatively if you don't want to go > through the trouble of locating the TCP/IP networking support > installer you can add another bridge, any OS 9 capable mac should do, > that'll allow you to connect to a modern mac over TCP/IP, transfer > files to its hard drive and then create a share on the OS 9 mac over > AppleTalk. Obviously this is not a plug and play solution as we've all > become accustomed to with today's modern software, but ultimately I > think this'll provide you with much more pleasure in the end. SE/30 > ethernet cards can be had on eBay for around $60 and probably cheaper > on lemswap if you ask. > > -- > Best Regards, > > John Musbach --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Vintage Macs group. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
