Re: GS user gets free Mac -- some questions....

[taob@io.org (Brian Tao)]

In article <Cusw1M.97p@maplesoft.on.ca>, Tim Haynes
<thaynes@maplesoft.on.ca> wrote:

>1) what do I need to get the 40 meg hard drive useable on my GS?  Some
>   type of SCSI card, but which is the best?  Is it feasible that I can
>   sell this little Mac and use the proceeds to get such a card?

    If it's just the bare drive, you'll also need a case, power supply and
Centronics-style 50-pin SCSI connectors.  Then buy yourself a RamFAST SCSI
controller, plug it into your GS and be very happy.  :)  I don't know what
you can get for that Mac Plus.  Assuming 1 meg of RAM and an 800K drive...
maybe $150 for it?  *shrug*

>2) what's the largest partition on a Prodos volume?

    32 megs.

>3) isn't a 68000 faster than a 68C816?

    It equivalent clock speeds?  Probably not, but clock speed is a
non-issue, really.  Look at the software that runs on the CPU instead.  A
486/33 will bog down running Windows, but seem incredibly fast running a
more efficient OS (say, Linux or any flavour of UNIX).  System 7 on a Mac
Plus would be dead slow, for instance (and you would need at least 2 megs of
RAM anyway).

>   I guess putting this hard drive on the Mac is easier than putting it on
>   the GS -- any personal opinions about whether it's worth it to put  
>   the hard drive on the Mac and actually *use* the thing?

    Did the Mac Plus come with real SCSI?  I can never remember...
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