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



Greetings, fellow Apple II zealots...

I haven recently come into possession of a little Macintosh Plus (I got it
for free).  I also picked up a free 40 meg SCSI drive (no case, cables, 
power supply or anything -- just the drive mechanism).  I've only owned 
Apple II's, but have used Macs at work.  I have a few questions that I'm 
hoping some kind soul here can help me with...

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?

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

and lastly, the Blasphemy Of Ages...

3) isn't a 68000 faster than a 68C816?  Is it conceivable that this little
   Mac is a better equipped machine than my GS?  My GS is very stock -- 1
   meg RAM, 800k drive, no hard drive, colour composite monitor (yak!)
   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?  I was going to
   use the Mac as a terminal, but....

I'm also wonder what the cash value of this item is (minus the hard
drive).  

Thanks in advance for your help, folks!

Tim


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