Hi Scott,
Thanks for your reply. Would the bracket from an LC III work? I have
a spare. I would imagine so...
I do not have an extra floppy drive, actually. The one I will be
getting only has one drive. However, most of my disks are 1.4 MB, so
an 800k drive won't be too much help ;-)
I am working on getting an Apple 8/24 something video card, along with
a few others... It seems to fit the bill.
I can probably steal some PRAM batteries from other Macs, until I can
make my own batteries. I think you are referring to the process of
using AA batteries soldered together, right? Or, are the batteries in
the Mac II soldered in? It didn't look like it...
Anyone have any idea of value?
Thanks,
Kyle-
On Oct 19, 2005, at 9:18 PM, Scott Baret wrote:
You can put either a 3.5" or a 5.25" hard drive in a
Mac II. I've seen both configurations in action.
Brackets are available for either.
Also make sure you have an additional floppy on hand
in case the one you get has only one drive installed.
Although this isn't necessary it's nice for making
backups of important disks (and when disks get old
they get unreliable so make your backups). A stock
regular II can only use 800K drives though.
I'm currently working on a II myself (it will be a
server for a platoon of compact Macs I recently
acquired). Make sure your II has a good video card and
make sure you know how to solder batteries in. A II
will not start if it doesn't have two good batteries.
It uses the same small 3.6V batteries that most of the
other Macs use.
Scott
--- Kyle Koerner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hey all,
Looking into purchasing a Mac II (the original).
There is no hard
drive installed... i know it is SCSI, but is there
anything specific to
know, like physical size or termination, etc? Never
owned a II
anything before.
Also, what do you think is a fair price?
Thanks,
Kyle-
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