Thank you. I was looking at 50 to 80 pin adapters and those would cost about the same and probably maintain or reduce speed.

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As I said - 50 to 80 adapter would be quite cumbersome to mount and it would require some hassle with proper bus termination. Get ATTO SE IV and you can easily connect any modern, 68-pin LVD drive + LVD cable for cheap. As a bonus you'll get about 2x performance of builtin SCSI.

I'm becoming increasingly excited about getting this thing working, but I'm still stuck on how to get files off of there. There's no network card, no modem to speak of, obviously no USB port and all my other computers are PC's. I've looked around for freeware programs to read mac fl oppies but HFSexplorer won't open a floppy disk.

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To write Mac disks on the PC you can try this method:

http://macfaq.org/software/macos.shtml#Q1.1.6

And Quadra 610 should have AAUI ethernet port - all you need to connect it to your home networ is proper (and again cheap) adapter - probably the one for twisted pair cable. They are popular and easy to spot on eBay.

I'm a writer and I plan to use the Quadra as my main writing computer but I need to make sure I can get my stuff off of there on a regular basis for backups and printing and that sort of thing, so file formats and file systems are a big concern. HMMMMM.

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Word 5.1a or Wordperfect 3.5 (freee) - both nice and very competent word processors. If you get an AAUI adapter, then exchanging data with PCs shouldn't be a problem.