At 1:35 PM -0700 10/28/04, Profile Null wrote:
What's up guys? I've been listening for a few weeks and y'all seem pretty knowledgable about this Macintosh stuff. I have two questions not entirely unrelated and this is not an emergency situation.
So thanks to a good buddy, I have a Centris 650, I've been fixing up PCs for over a decade but the Mac is a different world. It's a a neat machine, he had upgraded the memory and the internal hard drive. One of my first projects was to upgrade the OS to system 7.5.5 which went smooth. I even had Debian GNU/Linux on a partition for a while, just to see if I could get it done. Before I ramble to much, let me get to the question.
I noticed this box has some sort of external scsi port. I don't know much about scsi and am really unsure of what would be the right external drive to get (my experience on the PC has always been match the drives to the card, like Ultra-Wide for example) and also where to get it. Somebody told me it was possible to connect an oridinary IDE disk to some adapter circuitry and use that with an old mac. I've googled but haven't find this yet. Is there such a thing? Do you guys know where the drive compatibility information is at? Would eBay be the only place to pick up a disk or is there a supplier? (In Commodore land, there was one or two third parties that charged a bit more but kept us in supply). Thanks in advance, I would like to know.
The DB-25 SCSI connector is basically SCSI-1 with a different connector. Surplus stores and e-Bay are your best bet for finding one these days.
There are IDE-SCSI adapters available. Problem is the adapter is probably worth more than a cheap SCSI drive that is bigger than you'll likely need.
The next question is more about why I would need the space to begin with. When I recieved the Centris, it really didn't have anything on it. I've found one website (the macintosh garden) chock full of games, but visiting shareware sites and the ilk, i'm not finding a whole lot of application software. If I had a C compiler and docs, i'd just take the time to build whatever I wanted to play with, but i'm having trouble even finding that. So, where do you get classic mac apps?
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