Barry.Chern@p4.f200.n226.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Barry Chern) (09/22/90)
I have a friend with a 512 whose hard drive has crashed. He doesn't have an SCSI port, and repairing the old drive seems like a waste of money. He thinks that for the kind of stuff he does, he could really get by with another floppy drive. However, a used hard drive might also be an answer. If you have any drives in good condition that will work with a 512, then please let us know thanks, Barry -- Barry Chern via cmhGate - Net 226 fido<=>uucp gateway Col, OH UUCP: ...!osu-cis!n8emr!cmhgate!200.4!Barry.Chern INET: Barry.Chern@p4.f200.n226.z1.FIDONET.ORG
stanfiel@testeng1.misemi (Chris Stanfield) (09/24/90)
In article <71884.26FAF868@cmhgate.FIDONET.ORG> Barry.Chern@p4.f200.n226.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Barry Chern) writes: > >I have a friend with a 512 whose hard drive has crashed. He doesn't have an >SCSI port, and repairing the old drive seems like a waste of money. He thinks >that for the kind of stuff he does, he could really get by with another floppy >drive. However, a used hard drive might also be an answer. >thanks, >Barry > It might be worth your friends while to consider upgrading his machine to include a SCSI port. If the 512 has the 64k ROM set and an 800k floppy, there are a number of kits available. I have used the NewLife 1 board on several machines. This provides a SCSI port, plus the capability to upgrade the Mac to as much as 4M of memory. The upgraded machine is supposed to be 20% faster than a MacPlus. The board is available from: Newbridge Microsystems 603 March Road Kanata, Ontario K2K 2M5 Canada Tel. (613) 592 0714 The board has a retail price of $360 Canadian, and you can order direct, if need be (they do VISA etc.). Dove also do similar upgrades, but I believe that the NewLife board is faster, and I do not know if the Dove board will support 4M of memory. The NewLife board uses their own custom chip to do all the clever stuff. Chris Stanfield, Mitel Corporation: E-mail to:- uunet!mitel!testeng1!stanfiel (613) 592 2122 Ext.4960 We do not inherit the world from our parents - we borrow it from our children.
ostroff@Oswego.EDU (Boyd Ostroff) (09/26/90)
In article <4568@testeng1.misemi> stanfiel@testeng1.UUCP () writes: >In article <71884.26FAF868@cmhgate.FIDONET.ORG> Barry.Chern@p4.f200.n226.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Barry Chern) writes: >> >>I have a friend with a 512 whose hard drive has crashed. He doesn't have an >>SCSI port, and repairing the old drive seems like a waste of money. >It might be worth your friends while to consider upgrading his machine >to include a SCSI port. If the 512 has the 64k ROM set and an 800k >floppy, there are a number of kits available. That would be a 512E, and the original poster indicated he had a 512. Personally, I would be reluctant to upgrade a 512 at this point, with the Plus going for about $700 and soon to be orphaned, a 512 is really only worth a couple hundred dollars (I sold a 512E and HD-20 for $450 recently). I'd suggest opening up the hard drive's case (is it an Apple HD-20?) and seeing what the actual drive mechanism is. Assuming the power supply and interface is ok, you can probably get a cheap replacement bare drive from one of the places that advertise in Computer Shopper. You'll also find ads for several places that repair bare drives for reasonable fees.... ||| Boyd Ostroff - Tech Director - Dept of Theatre - SUNY Oswego ||| Sys Admin - "The CallBoard" - (315) 947-6414 - 1200/2400 baud ||| ostroff@oswego.oswego.edu - cboard!ostroff@oswego.oswego.edu