Well, picked up the Classic II, and as suspected, no ethernet. The guy was confused when I pointed that out, and after a short conversation, we decided he must have been thinking of an SE he sold earlier. He gave me a discount for the misinformation, and I was on my way. The Classic II was in excellent shape, almost no yellowing. Keyboard, mouse, excellent carrying case, a bunch of software, and the original computer and OS manuals. The RAM was maxed out at 10mb, and the hard drive had been upgraded to a 250 MB model at some point. All and all, for $30, it was a good deal.
So, the project scope is changed a little. In addition to finding a PDS ethernet card for the SE, I'm going to need to find a way to get ethernet on a non expansion slot mac. Are there recommendations or places I could obtain a SCSI to ethernet or serial to ethernet adaptor? Jason On Apr 30, 2010, at 3:52 PM, Scott Holder wrote: > Boyer Jason wrote: >> Greetings All, >> >> New to this group, but not as new to vintage macs. I've picked up a SE >> (with HD), and a Classic II, and thought it would be fun to embark on a pet >> project to get them talking to each other and perhaps on a home network or >> internet. The Classic II appears to have an integrated RJ-45, so I'm set >> hardware wise. The SE is a different story. I know it has an expansion >> slot called SE PDS in Mactracker, and I suspect it was at least capable of >> participating in token ring networks, but the real question is the >> possibility of getting an RJ-45 port on this machine. Ebay searches >> indicate a plethora of LC PDS ethernet cards for the early LC machines, >> which may be the same communication protocol, but perhaps not the same >> physical arrangement, I'm not sure. So the big question is, can I equip an >> SE with an ethernet port through any means? >> >> Cheers, >> Jason >> > > Yes, there are readily available ethernet cards for the SE which will work > nicely and well. You can check on the usual places, eBay and the LEM Swap > list, to get one. > > What's interesting to me though is the Classic II. It doesn't have any > internal expansion capability typically, so there'd be no place to install an > ethernet card. I'd be interested in seeing at least some external pictures, > and internal pictures if you ever take it apart. > > Scott > > -- > ----- > You received this message because you are a member of 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 leave this group, send email to [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs > > Support for older Macs: http://lowendmac.com/services/ -- ----- You received this message because you are a member of 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 leave this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs Support for older Macs: http://lowendmac.com/services/
