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    I finally have disk images transfered!!!

    Oops! The disk image for King's Quest disk 1 came back with errors & ADTPRO labels the disk as being "I/O Errors." I have a utility that will try to get bad blocks out on my hard drive.
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    I finally have disk images transfered!!!

    ADT PRO in conjunction with the proper null modem cables & a USB to serial connector driver from Prolific (PL-2303) I managed to eventually make disk images into working disks! Yay!
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    I just dug out my hard drive for the LC III.

    I thought it was SCSI that I had gotten from the Mac but someone mentioned above that it's a IDE hard drive on the Packard Bell. In an earlier post I mentioned how my fuses on the LC III were burned out because of plugging a parallel port zip drive into the SCSI drive. I don't know why I'm...
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    I just dug out my hard drive for the LC III.

    Does Apple have a different attitude towards pin lay outs?
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    I just dug out my hard drive for the LC III.

    Anyone know what I can do with it? I bought a 50pin USB adaptor but it doesn't fit. I tried installing it into my Packard Bell 486 machine but the pin outs are different. I'll look up the drive & see if I can find some diagrams or something.
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    LCIII and SCSI.

    I'm getting the disk with a question mark in the middle of it. It won't recognize the hard drive. ... 8-o I only spent ten bucks on the computer... but I hate spending money on mistakes.
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    LCIII and SCSI.

    I don't see any switches other than the eject button on the front. On the back there's a male SCSI port and a female one.
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    LCIII and SCSI.

    It's a LC III Macintosh (the computer). I finally had the chance to boot her up today because I got the VGA-DB15 pin adapter for my monitor. Fire her up, she loads OS 7.1. Fine. Turned her off, plugged in the SCSI zip drive. Turn her on... nothing. Another thing is she's got an ethernet jack...
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