Re: Converting 2mg's back to real hardware?

[mjmahon@aol.com (Michael J. Mahon)]

colin_tokyo@hotmail.com  (Xerxes409) wrote:

>Whoop -- one more question. I need to get a new SCSI hard drive
>(external, obviously). Since I live in Japan, the crazy electronics
>district has lots of retro Mac hardware and HDD's in smaller sub-1GB
>sizes. Should I buy a certain size (or would it be futile to get
>anything bigger than a certain megabyte count?).

In general, you should get the newest old drive that you can
get cheaply.  Capacity you don't use won't hurt you.

If you ever use it with a IIgs, you can use up whatever is left
over from a bunch of ProDOS partitions with a big HFS partition.

-michael

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