Just got a Classic II!

[shifuimam]

There's an electronics waste/collection place by my house, and every once in awhile, I check out what's in the dumpster behind the building. So far I've acquired a Netpliance I-Opener and, more relevant to this forum, a Macintosh Classic II.

I got an ADB keyboard and mouse from someone on another forum for cheap, so I can actually use it now - so far I've ascertained that it's running 7.1 and has the full 10MB RAM installed. I *think* it has an 80MB hard drive, but I'm not certain.

I'd like to put 7.5 on it, but Apple's download is only one big disk image. Is there a way to split it up into floppy-sized bites, or am I going to just have to buy a set of floppies on eBay? Additionally, I've seen online that it will take any SCSI hard drive - is this true? e.g. could I put a much larger drive in it?

 

[JRL]

To be frank, I'd stick with System 7.1 and not touch System 7.5.3. Your Macintosh Classic II will feel slower with System 7.5.3.

50-pin hard drives (which your Macintosh Classic II uses) were made up to 9.1 GB AFAIK. You can also get a 80-pin SCSI to 50-pin HD adapter for a cheap BIN price. They work well with Macs.

In fact, my Macintosh LC has one of those adapters connected to a Seagate 600 MB 80-pin SCSI hard drive and is running System 7.1 like a charm.

Just a word of warning: you're gonna need third-party formatting software to format a non-Apple ROMed hard drive (otherwise known as a hard drive which does NOT have a Apple logo on the label or any mention of Apple). FWB Hard Disk Toolkit (commercial program) and Micronet Utility 7.2.7 (free program) are nice ones.

Also, for large hard drives, you will have to format them into 2 GB partitions. Once you do so, they run beautifully. My Macintosh LC 475 also has a 9.1 GB 50-pin SCSI hard drive split up into several partitions and also runs System 7.5 like a charm.

Good luck, and enjoy your Macintosh Classic II!

 

[RichardG]

System 7.1

And about 7.1.1 and 7.1.2 non-Pro?

 

[JRL]

Well, yeah, those too. xD

You can run System 7.5+ if you really need to for networking purposes, but you should at least run it with upgraded RAM.