-------- Original Message --------
Wednesday, October 9, 2002 2:05:07 AM
From: Martin A. Totusek
Subject: Re: Macintosh SE stuff sought
Martin A. Totusek posted in dBug Water Cooler:
A fellow named Joel {he is not online; no ISP or Email yet...} was
referred to me...
He has gotten an old Macintosh SE, with an 800K internal hard disk and
an internal APPLE 800K Floppy Drive, and he wants find hardware and
software for it. He's fairly new to computers and does not have a big
budget (single parent with child). I suggested that a second-hand 604e
CPU Power Macintosh machine and monitor, or if he wasn't wanting SCSI,
that a new eMac or iMac might be a way to go; He however insists that he
wants to start very simple and use the SE with Mac OS 6.0.8 and Mac OS
7.5.3. That being said, I said that I'd inquiry about the following.
Does anyone have for free or for not-to-expensive, or know where to get
in Seattle for free or for not-to-expensive :
1) An External APPLE Floppy Drive for Mac SE (MAKING SURE that it's the
one that can read 1.4 MB Floppy Disks; It was often called "Apple
'Superdrive' Floppy Drive").
2) External APPLE CD-ROM Drive (SCSI) 4x or 8x (8x is better), that is
compatible with an SE and/or a CLASSIC.
3) External SCSI Hard Drive (in case) that is compatible with the Mac
PLUS, SE and CLASSIC, and that either has a 25-pin or 50-pin SCSI
connector. Volumes for machines using the Motorola 68000 CISC CPU (Mac
PLUS, SE and CLASSIC) shoud be no larger than 2 GIG formatted HFS (so a
2 GIG SCSI Hard Disk, or a 4 GIG drive partitioned into two 2 GIG
partitions).
4) SCSI terminator(s) for above-referenced hard drives and/or other
devices.
5) 250 MB external SCSI Iomega Zip Drive (Does the Computer Store still
have these in stock?).
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?
And as I'm pretty rusty on 68000 machines (I mostly use my Macintosh
CLASSIC running Mac OS 7.1 with Update 3 for reading 400K and 800K
floppy disks):
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?
b) Which external SCSI CD-R burners work with an SE and/or a CLASSIC?
-Martin
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