On Mar 5, 2018, at 9:16 AM, Bill Degnan via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
I don't know if this is a "duh" comment, but I have found using an external SCSI drive and porting it from machine to machine is very useful, so I don't have to worry so much about the internal drive being the only option for booting MACs, not that I do it super often.
Bill
Not a "duh" comment at all, I do the exact same thing. I primarily use Zip drives as I have ones with parallel, FireWire, USB and 50 pin scsi connectors so I can easily move the 100mb and 250 disks between machines without having to connect and disconnect drives. I actually thought of suggesting an external drive to Joe but people often ask ridiculous prices for the enclosures, especially with a drive installed, and I have only a handful that are all in use or paired with machines I'm selling. However, I have 40, 80 and 250mb mechanisms in large quantity so this will at least get him by for now (assuming I can get it to him before his current one dies!!) My main se/30 I use for testing peripherals, making/testing hd floppies and transferring stuff across my network has a scsi2sd in it now and my other playtime se/30 has a 4.1gb internal hdd. Doesn't matter to me when it dies, have plenty of spares and I just like the sound of a hdd spinning up in my machines!! Tony