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Posted by: MacTCP on 2007-09-23 20:33:40
I won a Macintosh SE on eBay. It looks like it's an FDHD. It will be my first compact Macintosh! I will be installing System 6.0.8 on it. Applications I know I'll be using with it are Microsoft Works 2, MacPaint, and LightningPaint. 🙂
I also won a SCSI Zip 100 Drive. I bought it for my Quadra 700 whose hard drive is full. 🙂
I can't wait until they come. ;D
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Posted by: pee-air on 2007-09-23 21:19:49
How much do ZIP disks sell for these days? Do they even make and sell them anymore? Probably would have been cheaper to buy a bigger hard drive for your Quadra 700.
Nice SE!
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Posted by: Temetka on 2007-09-23 22:03:44
Zip disks are awesome. I have an old external SCSI Zip 100 drive. I have about 25 disks or so.
A friend of mine whose main machine (heck only machine) is his trusty Amiga 4000 trades files with me. Since he has a Zip drive, we can transfer 100MB of stuff at a time. That's much better than floppy or e-mail.
Don't knock Zip drives.
I love 'em to death and will be purchasing a 250MB USB unit soon.
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Posted by: LCGuy on 2007-09-23 22:22:23
Click-click drives...eww. Many people swear by 'em, but i hate the bastards.
But don't worry about me...i hate click-click drives mostly because mine went click after only 1.5 years of careful use and TLC.
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Posted by: MacTCP on 2007-09-24 12:10:34
I already have some disks from two dead drives.
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Posted by: MacMan on 2007-09-24 17:30:52
Nice conquest!
Zip drives are incredibly useful for transferring large amounts of data between older Macs quickly. I've got the same kind of Iomega Zip drive which I use on my Quadra 700, IIcx etc and it's really handy because my PowerMac G4 has a built-in Zip drive. This makes trnsferring files between the G4 and older machines very easy indeed.
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Posted by: MacTCP on 2007-09-26 12:35:22
I got both the SE and Zip Drive today! The SE is actually a SuperDrive. Is there any difference between an FDHD and SuperDrive? Also, the hard drive in it doesn't seem to work. Any ideas on how to revive it? I haven't tested the Zip Drive yet.
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Posted by: iamdigitalman on 2007-09-26 13:37:08
I have a parallel version of a zip drive, quite nice. Giant wall wort, however. I have about 15 zip disks for the thing too. Still have an unopened 10 pack I got on clearance for $10 (1/disk!!) down from $70.
If I ever get parallel card for my new IIe, I plan on getting the zip drive working with it. I know it's possible. One disk can hold a whole collection of disk images, and I bet I can boot from those images. Then use another one to hold some OSes and/or basic programs.
-digital 😉
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Posted by: madmax_2069 on 2007-09-26 14:41:18
i know my local walmarts has zip 100 disk's in there discount isle for like $4 a pop, i think they got lowered down to $2 a pop. originally they was $9 when this walmarts was first opened about a year ago ( and was the price i paid when i got mine). i bought 2 of them ( one for $9 and one for $4 )
you just have to be on the look out for them. i would check walmarts around the electronic isle and the discount isle for them. your walmarts might have them.
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Posted by: MacTCP on 2007-09-26 15:14:01
My Quadra 700 won't even start up with the Zip Drive plugged in. It freezes RIGHT before extensions load. The mac boots up with it connected and extensions off. (This isn't because of Iomega Drivers, I checked) I can't get the drive to make disks show up at all. I tried with its terminator on and off, and with it's SCSI ID as 5 or 6 (the two on the slider). What's making this not work?
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Posted by: MacTCP on 2007-09-26 16:55:43
The Hard Disk in the SE SuperDrive seems to be repairable, but how? When I start the mac up, it shows the happy mac and the hard drive light starts blinking just like it's starting up from the hard drive. But then the icon changes to a ? Disk, and the blinking light goes out. When I start up from my System 6 install disk, the Hard Drive is not detected. Because of the happy mac and blinking, I believe this can be fixed. Is there any sort of program that I could add to a boot disk and repair the Hard Drive?
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Posted by: funkytoad on 2007-09-26 17:59:36
I love the compacts!
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Posted by: MacTCP on 2007-09-26 18:35:03
Yes, this SE makes me feel complete.
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Posted by: gobabushka on 2007-09-26 19:04:52
try a patched version of apple hdsc setup
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Posted by: MacTCP on 2007-09-26 19:14:18
I found Norton Utilities 1 in "a special download space" and it's fixing my hard disk!
All I need to do now is get the Zip drive working. Anybody know how?
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Posted by: MacTCP on 2007-09-26 19:49:37
The HD was MFS! :O
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Posted by: MacTCP on 2007-09-26 20:11:01
Only Norton can see the MFS disk, and Norton can't erase disks! How do I erase this MFS disk? HD SC Setup doesn't see it. :?:
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Posted by: wally on 2007-09-26 21:13:30
In a peripheral drivers area there is a FWB Hard Disk Toolkit that is a pretty competent disk formatter utility you might try. I haven't used that exact archive but have a version that has served very well, and works on 6.0.8 and up. Re the zip drive, and your disk being full, I am speculating that the disk might be so full that there is insufficient room to open whatever size read/write buffers that might be needed by the zip driver when a connected zip is detected. Use version 4.2 (which works for me) or later of the Iomega Driver, which is also available in an uploads area. Power up the zip drive before the computer is powered up.
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Posted by: MacTCP on 2007-09-27 12:21:22
Can you send me your copy as an email attachment? That version doesn't have a serial number. :-x
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