I'm a little lost here.

Does the floppy not work in the SE?  Or no floppy in the G3?

Seems a bit complicated for what could be done very easy.



On Aug 12, 4:49 pm, Doug McNutt <[email protected]> wrote:
> 1)  If you get far enough a source of 25 pin D style SCSI cables is someone 
> who still has a Zip drive. They were delivered with such a cable. Anything 
> wired for RS232 serial or peecee parallel port is doomed to failure.
>
> 2) Some Macs - all portables I'm afraid - had a way to start them up in 
> "target" mode. That way a machine could become what you want with its disk 
> being available to a desktop box. A target machine had to be sure that it 
> didn't respond to requests on SCSI 7. Device 7 is always the computer if 
> there is only one SCSI bus and that would surely be a conflict with two fully 
> operating motherboards. This 8500 has two SCSI busses and might connect the 
> way you want on the second - external - bus where the target disk could 
> remain ID-0 without opening the box.
>
> --
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