Your best bet is to go to Craigslist or Ebay and get an '040 based Macintosh. Use that as an intermediary. Using a SE alone is an almost impossible/impractical pursuit. You also need System 7 or above to run the SMI (self-mounting images) and or DiskCopy.
Of course you connect them together using Localtalk, and use your new '040 Mac running 7+ as a Fileshare... then you don't even need ethernet cards in everything.
I've done this to 'bootstap' my systems this year into something usable. I use a Quadra 840 that I picked up very cheaply.
The bonus here is that most '040 macs will have built in ethernet (just get a transceiver). You will use that ethernet to connect to your Modern Mac(s). You would use something like FTP in this case- ftp from the '040 mac to your modern mac.
Of course you connect them together using Localtalk, and use your new '040 Mac running 7+ as a Fileshare... then you don't even need ethernet cards in everything.
I've done this to 'bootstap' my systems this year into something usable. I use a Quadra 840 that I picked up very cheaply.
The bonus here is that most '040 macs will have built in ethernet (just get a transceiver). You will use that ethernet to connect to your Modern Mac(s). You would use something like FTP in this case- ftp from the '040 mac to your modern mac.