SUCCESS!!
Thanks all (Phreakout, Mac128, LCGuy) for your advice, here's how I finally got things to work. Using a 7.0.1 Disk Tools disk, modified with Ramdisk 3.2.3, I booted the machine with a copy of System on the Ramdisk. I then loaded (from floppy) MicroNet Utility 7.2.7 (which I thought I had tried before) in "Auto" mode to set up the hard drive I "borrowed" from the recently-purchased $3.23 Centris. Now have a working hard drive but...
Oops! It just "burped" at me - a short, low (not bong) beep, and the cursor locked up, so still a problem with "Lonely Mac" syndrome. Maybe memory as Phreakout suggested earlier?
Oh, and I did bid on a zip ($1.00) drive on E-bay, good suggestion that (LCGuy). Not sure if I'll continue to bid now, but it might be handy. Now if I can work out a null modem and terminal emulation (zterm?) to enable large file transfers between the PC and the SE...
Thanks all (Phreakout, Mac128, LCGuy) for your advice, here's how I finally got things to work. Using a 7.0.1 Disk Tools disk, modified with Ramdisk 3.2.3, I booted the machine with a copy of System on the Ramdisk. I then loaded (from floppy) MicroNet Utility 7.2.7 (which I thought I had tried before) in "Auto" mode to set up the hard drive I "borrowed" from the recently-purchased $3.23 Centris. Now have a working hard drive but...
Oops! It just "burped" at me - a short, low (not bong) beep, and the cursor locked up, so still a problem with "Lonely Mac" syndrome. Maybe memory as Phreakout suggested earlier?
Oh, and I did bid on a zip ($1.00) drive on E-bay, good suggestion that (LCGuy). Not sure if I'll continue to bid now, but it might be handy. Now if I can work out a null modem and terminal emulation (zterm?) to enable large file transfers between the PC and the SE...