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Thanks for the replies :) I will check MG to find a suitable version of stuffit; I think I have 3.x, which if I recall, was the greatest you can put on System 7. So far, the issue is not much to put files on the 1400; since I use a CF card via PCMCIA (it run on system 8-) , but to move...

Happy new year! I am dealing with a bit of an issue here: got both a 520 and a 1400; and I am using the 1400 to make floppy for my SE HD and the 520. The problem is with big archives: the sit file is 4 MB, it won't fit on a floppy, so while I can use the PCMCIA-CF adapter to move the files on...

Thanks for your suggestions! So far I was able to acquire a 520; one of my coworkers had one and was trashing it; so I jumped on and got it :) it is not the color version but it is fine as is. Although I did realize that it does have a SCSI drive and no PCMCIA (forget about getting a module...

I see; although I am more interested in the machine as bridge between the old and new world, and for the collector "feel"; I am not planning to use the machine for any modern activity like surfing the web and such, so if it is more modern or less modern won't really change things for me :) I...

I was thinking about the 1400 because it has a ppc, and a PCMCIA, so I "assume" that I can plug in a ethernet PCMCIA card and a CF adapter, so I can both have networking on it, and a solid state drive so I can put aside the original noisy drive. BTW is the 1400CS and 1400C the same? From what I...

Thanks for your suggestions. So the wallstreet would be fine; and same goes for the powerbook 500 series. The Wallstreet seems to come with the cd as default, which means that I have to hunt down the floppy module; and that makes me a bit nervous since I didn't find any on sale lately that has...

Hi guys, I have an SE, and I would like to have a second machine that can make disks for it. For the superdrive, I think any model of powerbook should do, since they all use 1.44 floppy drives, and if they have a USB port I can just use an external usb drive to make floppy. But for the 800k I...

Thanks for your suggestion! I was not aware that I can use also 68 pin drives; that open more options; especially if all that it needs is an adapter!

So prefs are also kept via battery? i thought that anything beside the time, was saved on disk/hd

Totally agree :) I ended up buying 4 different SE and putting together the best parts, exactly because of the crazy prices that such old and delicate hardware goes for. I did find plenty of drives but they go for 40-50, which is the same price of another SCSI2SD at that point. Is there a way...

YEah, I did check mine (solder version), and it is still good after so long. On another motherboard the same battery (varta) did leak and ruined everything; I was able at least to save some chips and the ROMS, if I ever need to replace one or all of them. I was planning to remove the battery...

Got it, where can I find this Lido software? Is it on the macintosh garden or similar sites? I do have a SCSI2SD device; got it for cheap but I am using it already on another device; while for this one I was looking to make a restore with standard parts. I don't even need a big drive, after all...

I see, and how did you format the drive once you did install it? I was told that you can't use the HD20 software because it works only with Apple branded drives. Also is still possible to buy 50 pin SCSI drives somewhere? I have to check my local e-waste places to see if they have any available.

So it was working just fine until yesterday. Today I took apart the SE to clean up again the floppy disk, since it was not reading some disks that were working on the other SE, and when I did put together the SE, now the hard drive won't boot anymore. It start with a solid red light for few...

Thanks a lot! It does extract now without problems!

So far no luck opening this archive; I did check with another person that has a newer mac running OS8 and even with his stuffit, the sit archive won't open. At this point I am clueless about how to run the accelerator card :(

Sadly the qtip and alcohol did not fix the problem :( I guess I have to bite the bullet and accept that I can only use the 800K drive at this point. Unless there is something else that I can try; the problem does not seem to be the mechanical part; since I did grease it up and is working as...

Crossing fingers that this will fix the problem; thanks!

Well, if I had an SE/30, I would use that :) They are more expensive than the regular SE, and from what I read, more prone to caps leaking, so I am OK with a slower model; but the 1.44 floppy is much needed to get data in and out the machine.

I see; so the drive is bad; but how do I figure out if it is a recoverable bad or totally bad? The weird thing is that it read only one 800k disk; although it try to format teh disks with 2 holes as 1.44; so kudos for the effort