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

["John Van Winkle" <appleiieman@charter.net>]

"Andy McFadden" <fadden@fadden.com> wrote in message
news:C7Yjd.4253$_3.50460@typhoon.sonic.net...
> Xerxes409 <colin_tokyo@hotmail.com> wrote:
> >> At any rate, you should be able to copy 32MB of data on and off the
drive
> >> in about five seconds from your PC, so it's easy to experiment once you
> >> have it partitioned.
> >
> > 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?).
>
> If you're sticking to ProDOS 8, anything over 256MB (8 32MB partitions) is
> silly.  If you're using HFS under GS/OS, go nuts.  I think you'd be
> hard pressed to fill up 2GB with Apple II stuff -- I think the full Asimov
> archive is under 1GB.
>
> Any SCSI-II compliant drive should work, at least with the Apple HS SCSI
card.
>


I have some original Apple SCSI hard drives if interested....email me.


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