Hey Guys! I sent out an email awhile ago regarding the treasure trove of macs I just obtained, and now I have some questions.
1) I have about a kajillion SE's. Many of them clearly have two 800k disk drives, a couple of them say they are a "Macintosh SE Superdrive". It only has one disk drive (I am assuming a 1.4MB one) but no harddrive... I *thought* the superdrive models came with an internal HD.... The vast majority have one single 800k drive and the upper bay is closed off but has the little paper clip whole and a little window thing that looks like it should be a light. I am a little confused... could someone run down the many variations of the SEs? 2) I have two SE/30s. One does not turn on at all and the Apple Techstep system (this really cool keypad like thing that plugs in to the computers and tests a variety of things) says that it is not getting any power. THe second one turns on, but all I get is a screen full of horizontal lines, alternating light and dark. WHat does this mean? Apple Techstep can't put the thing in Test mode via the SCSI port, so I am not sure if something is wrong there. 3) I have (literally) over 1,000 floppy disks. Many are Apple things (a couple of sealed Teacher Software bundles, something called "interpoll network" things, etc.). One set of disks are called "Apple CAT" things- these say that they test a couple of types of computers.... however, it says that they are for use on another computer. SO I am assuming that these test the subject computer by hooking it up to another computer... What cords are necessary to hook these up? 4) I have a couple of Apple 80SC hard drives... unfortunately it is not mounting on any of the 40,000 Mac Pluses I have, nor the SEs or Classics. Is there something necessary to load this thing? 5) I have a pair of Syquest 44 MB... "things".... these things are like huge CDS inside cartridges. The case say that they are 44MB. I am assuming these are some kind of Magneto Optical drives... Same as the above: I can't get it to mount anything. What do I need to do to get it up there 6) One of the hard drives I have is a 250MB clubmac drive. It will mount on the Classic II (haven't tried it on the thousands of Classics) but not any of the Mac Pluses... Is there something unique about those? 7) I also got the special mac hex screwdriver needed to open up the cases, and I haev discovered that I will probably need to do this to pillage some of the macs to salvage working parts. My question is: I have heard horror stories about the innards of these things. Is it safe to be poking around in there? What should I and shouldn't I touch? Well you guys, thanks for your help. My room is covered in compact macs, and the answers to these questions will help me fix these things and get them into ship shape. Thanks again! -Kendall -- Compact Macs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/>. Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Compact Macs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/compact.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; 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/compact.macs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
