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can I put a ethernet card in a Mac Classic?

Posted by: mraroid on 2017-07-05 11:17:58 Hi... My friend has a Mac Classic.  He wants to connect it to the internet.  In my Color Classic I installed a network card and plugged in a ethernet cable. I did a quick search on ebay, but did not finding anything.  Is the classic too old to take ethernet? Thanks in advance mraroid

Posted by: Hrududu on 2017-07-05 11:54:57 The Macintosh Classic doesn't have any kind of expansion port, so there isn't any off-the-shelf way to add internal ethernet.  Now thats not to say somebody hasn't figured out some way to do it, but not like the PDS slot in your color classic.  If you want ethernet in a compact Mac with a black and white screen, it needs to be an SE or SE/30

Posted by: BadGoldEagle on 2017-07-05 12:09:27 Nope, no ethernet cards for the Classic, in fact the Classic and the Classic II never had any PDS cards. You could add extra memory on the Classic and an extra ROM/FPU to the Classic II. Your friend's best bet if he wants ethernet is a SCSI to ethernet adaptor like the Asante mini en/sc (there were others, but I forgot what they're called)

Posted by: mraroid on 2017-07-05 13:06:33 Thank you gentleman.  Maybe the best best for my friend is to find a CD reader to hook up to his classic. How about this: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Matsushita-CR-506-SCSI-External-CD-ROM-for-Macintosh-/142433811838?hash=item2129b77d7e:g:3cwAAOSw~rpZWc4M mraroid

Posted by: mactjaap on 2017-07-05 14:51:41 I bought this one. You can use it on a Classic too! Great box. Cost me $30,-

Posted by: BadGoldEagle on 2017-07-05 14:52:46 Looks good as far as I can tell. It has 50 pin scsi as well. Comes with a terminator and a centronics to mac cable.

Posted by: mactjaap on 2017-07-05 15:20:16 The EtherWave works on the printer port. Works a Ethernet card.

Posted by: sstaylor on 2017-07-05 20:17:45 There were several different etherwave adapters, one for AAUI ethernet, one for AUI, one to hook up to the computer's localtalk serial port and thence to ethernet, one to hook one printer to ethernet via localtalk, another to hook several printers and computers to ethernet via localtalk.  You have to watch the part numbers.  Good luck finding the one pictured; I haven't seen one in ages.

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