I've been pretty disgusted by the apparent siphoning off of all tech treasures from our local recycling monopoly, so haven't visited much recently. On a whim, I dropped in and saw a SE Superdrive sitting on the bench. The vulture must have been napping somewhere else, so I snapped it up.
Nice to have an SE to sit between my 512ke amd my Classic.
After a few coughs and splutters, and with a new PRAM battery, it fired up perfectly to reveal a 160Mb HDD with a 7.1 install. It had been a university computer, and the sysadmin had thoughtfully removed all useful utilities from the system install, no doubt to prevent meddling by users.
As a bonus, I found the full text and notes for a course in Tibetan Buddhist Meditation, written by a Lama apparently as part of some graduate study. I'll open that up when I get frustrated with hardware issues.
Happily, the SE recognises my SCSI Zip and will boot from SCSI external HDD, though I can't get it to show both internal and external HDDs at the same time. There's no conflict of SCSI device number, so I don't know why the external drive seems to block the internal drive from booting. Some other SCSI drive setting to consider?
Now I'm going to have to read all the SE threads to work out the quirks of this particular model. So far, I'm impressed how fast it can work with just a 8MHz processor.
Rick
Nice to have an SE to sit between my 512ke amd my Classic.
After a few coughs and splutters, and with a new PRAM battery, it fired up perfectly to reveal a 160Mb HDD with a 7.1 install. It had been a university computer, and the sysadmin had thoughtfully removed all useful utilities from the system install, no doubt to prevent meddling by users.
As a bonus, I found the full text and notes for a course in Tibetan Buddhist Meditation, written by a Lama apparently as part of some graduate study. I'll open that up when I get frustrated with hardware issues.
Happily, the SE recognises my SCSI Zip and will boot from SCSI external HDD, though I can't get it to show both internal and external HDDs at the same time. There's no conflict of SCSI device number, so I don't know why the external drive seems to block the internal drive from booting. Some other SCSI drive setting to consider?
Now I'm going to have to read all the SE threads to work out the quirks of this particular model. So far, I'm impressed how fast it can work with just a 8MHz processor.
Rick
