cylindricpanda
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I recently acquired a 7100/80 with a bad HD and a Performa 636CD for some nostalgia times and also because I'm a minor collector of vintage comps, I've also got a PB G3 Lombard and a clamshell iBook that I thought was dead but just had a bad battery (surprise surprise) Even further back I got a G3 all-in-one that unfortunately I was able to use all of twice before the screen started going wonky.
Now for the actual questions; the HD in the AIO still works fine, and after reading up on everymac.com and the mactracker app, I thought since they were both SCSI I could just put that drive in the 7100 and be cruisy, but alas, the drive is 50-pin and the 7100 is 68-pin (or it might be the other way around, it's been a minute since I looked at them) or the drive might be IDE, it's actually slightly vague to me. I would like to get solid state drives in both the 7100 and the 636, since they are both old enough to drink by now ( hell I guess the lombard is too for that matter) is there a IDE/SCSI to CF/SD yall recommend? I've seen the SCSI2SD, that would probably work for the powerbook (except would it? I just had another peek on everymac and it says the lombard uses eide/ata-2 so I'm not sure...)
Lastly, I'd like to be able to share files between the 7100 the 636 and the powerbook. they all have CD drives and while that would be the simplest, I would like to network them in some way. I know the 7100 uses AAUI so I'd need an adaptor, the 636 has...nothing built-in so I'd need to track down some sort of card to add networking...but since they use SCSI, would it be worth it to track down like an external zip100/250 drive? I do also have a macbook pro from 2007 so probably whatever software would first be downloaded there then put on another media..
sorry for the wall of text,
Now for the actual questions; the HD in the AIO still works fine, and after reading up on everymac.com and the mactracker app, I thought since they were both SCSI I could just put that drive in the 7100 and be cruisy, but alas, the drive is 50-pin and the 7100 is 68-pin (or it might be the other way around, it's been a minute since I looked at them) or the drive might be IDE, it's actually slightly vague to me. I would like to get solid state drives in both the 7100 and the 636, since they are both old enough to drink by now ( hell I guess the lombard is too for that matter) is there a IDE/SCSI to CF/SD yall recommend? I've seen the SCSI2SD, that would probably work for the powerbook (except would it? I just had another peek on everymac and it says the lombard uses eide/ata-2 so I'm not sure...)
Lastly, I'd like to be able to share files between the 7100 the 636 and the powerbook. they all have CD drives and while that would be the simplest, I would like to network them in some way. I know the 7100 uses AAUI so I'd need an adaptor, the 636 has...nothing built-in so I'd need to track down some sort of card to add networking...but since they use SCSI, would it be worth it to track down like an external zip100/250 drive? I do also have a macbook pro from 2007 so probably whatever software would first be downloaded there then put on another media..
sorry for the wall of text,