>> At 13:14 -0500 01/03/2003, Nancy Haitz wrote: >> >> I was able to come up with a cheapie way of booting all of our legacy >> machines (C600, 9600 & 3400 laptop) for emergencies and for >> maintenance. I found one of the old Apple external SCSI boxes with a 4 >> GB hard drive in it, on ebay for under $50 shipped. Not exactly speedy >> but effective. >> > > On Friday, January 3, 2003, at 04:49 PM, Jeff Walther wrote: > > Ahhhh, the emergency external hard drive. That is an excellent > suggestion, especially since all Mac's up through the Beige (and > excluding the Mac 128, 512 and Duos) have a built-in SCSI port. > It's been so long since I've thought in terms of external drives, I > had completely forgotten about it. I've been trying to fit > everything in one case for a while and donated most of my external > drive enclosures to the Goodwill Computer Store.
Jeff, I have grown rather attached to an external drive box that contains an old 6 GB laptop drive. It has both a firewire and a PCMCIA cable. I find it really useful for transferring and installing software updates, virus definitions, and the like around to all of our various systems. (The 9600 and C600 both have firewire cards) I am also finding it handy for bringing "stuff" home from work. However, it will only boot the laptop, via the PC card cable. That was why I picked up the old Apple external box. Nancy -- SuperMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | Service & Replacement Parts [EMAIL PROTECTED] | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> SuperMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/supermacs/list.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/supermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
