I am thinking of selling off my old macs, i have 2 classics in carry cases and several others where would be a good place to post, I have used ebay but I don’t want to use it if I have to. On Sep 3, 2015, at 9:39 AM, Spenser Whaley <spenserwha...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I recently became the proud owner of this beauty: > > http://www.battlefieldsingleplayer.com/apachethunder/Images/MacSE.JPG > http://www.battlefieldsingleplayer.com/apachethunder/Images/MacSE_Rear.JPG > > Originally I had planned to get a Macintosh Classic because I used to own one > when I was a child. But alas, eBay was not kind to me and I lost my only > decent chance at getting one at a decent price. So I settled on a Macintosh > SE instead. I believe spec wise they are pretty much the same. The SE is > better because of the expansion slot though. :D > > The one I purchased has an Asante card already installed. (it is however > missing a hard-drive, but it does work as the it was shown to me booting from > a floppy disk). > > My question is where would I find the software for this card? The connector > for this card doesn't resemble anything I'm familiar with. Does this card > support Ethernet? I assume I would need some kind of adapter cable or > something. I would like to try and network this Mac to my PC via an emulator > if possible so I can perhaps use my PC as remote storage for my Mac while I > wait to save up money to buy a hard-drive for it. > > Currently it's going to be a month or more before I can get a hard-drive. The > old 50 pin SCSI hard-drives this old Macs use are being scalped at some > ridicules prices on eBay. Most cost almost as much as the Mac I just bought. > :( > > My last resort is to get a 80 to 50 pin adaptor and use a large capacity 80 > pin SCSI drive in it. As long as I get the right adapter I can put just about > any 80 pin SCSI drive in it (which for some odd reason sell for much much > cheaper prices then the 50 pin SCSI drives). Of old macs like these can't use > partitions larger then 2GB. But I don't really care. I can just partition 2GB > and ignore the rest. (I suppose there will be lots of redundancy to protect > against bad sectors. :P ) > > I've researched that a little and know that I will probably need to use a > third party hard-drive formatter as Apple's HD tools for MacOS 6/7 won't > initialize third party hard-drives. Especially if I get one that is in excess > of 40+GB in capacity. :P > > I will try and get a proper 50 pin SCSI drive. I'll guess I see what's > available next month. :P > > In the meant time I want to see if I can make use of the network card that's > in this machine. But would need to know what kind of connector I need to buy > for it. If it's not compatible with Ethernet, then I suppose I won't waste my > time with it. (heck if I don't end up using it, I am more then willing to > sell it. ;) ) > > -- > -- > ----- > You received this message because you are a member of 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 vintage-macs@googlegroups.com > To leave this group, send email to vintage-macs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs > > Support for older Macs: http://lowendmac.com/services/ > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Vintage Macs" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to vintage-macs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- -- ----- You received this message because you are a member of 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 vintage-macs@googlegroups.com To leave this group, send email to vintage-macs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs Support for older Macs: http://lowendmac.com/services/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Vintage Macs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vintage-macs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
