On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 11:17 PM, Sterling <[email protected]> wrote: > I am going to a yard sale tomorrow where I hope to pick up a Mac SE > with a hard drive. > Hopefully I'll be able to make some disks from that and move them > over.
An SE/30+ethernet card is actually IMO the best solution to bridging this gap. Unless you get a SE with a superdrive I believe it's called, then it won't read "modern" 1.44MB floppy disks--just the same ones the plus will read. A SE/30 of any kind will read 1.44MB floppy disks and with a little work (e.g. taping over the hole) should let you format the disk in a density that'll make the plus happy. Additionally, with sufficient RAM and hard disk space (I put a 2GB SCSI drive in mine and 128MB of RAM) you can install 7.5.5 and 8 with a alternate ROM chip. With that you can install TCP/IP networking support and communicate with a modern mac over the network allowing easy transfer of resource fork sensitive files from a modern mac to your old vintage buddies. Alternatively if you don't want to go through the trouble of locating the TCP/IP networking support installer you can add another bridge, any OS 9 capable mac should do, that'll allow you to connect to a modern mac over TCP/IP, transfer files to its hard drive and then create a share on the OS 9 mac over AppleTalk. Obviously this is not a plug and play solution as we've all become accustomed to with today's modern software, but ultimately I think this'll provide you with much more pleasure in the end. SE/30 ethernet cards can be had on eBay for around $60 and probably cheaper on lemswap if you ask. -- Best Regards, John Musbach --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Vintage Macs group. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
