Hello!
I have an SE FDHD that looks like it's good and working that's coming in on Friday. (Sad thing is I'm leaving on a plane tomorrow, so gotta wait to play with it) My goal this week was to get a brand new Mac Mini (the top configuration at the brick-and-mortar Apple store) and a retro Mac SE. I grew up on Macs, and my family owned just about every Mac imaginable. I recall having a Plus, LC, SE30, IIsi, etc, but never an SE FDHD. I love the appeal of the Plus, but wanted the 1.44mb floppy capability for use with the BMOW emulator.
I purchased the floppy emulator sold at Big Mess of Wires with all the extras. Looks like that's coming in tomorrow as well.
I have OS X Yosemite on my new Mini. I want to be able to sneaker-net files to and from the SE. Any good way of doing that?
Also, I would really like to have a good working hard drive on the SE so I can load up all this awesome software for it in one place. Is there a go-to drive that people are using? I'd rather not open the case if I don't have to.
Is there anything I need to watch out for? The seller indicated no screen flicker, and it looks like it has 4mb of RAM and was booted in the pictures to System 7 with no floppy inserted.
Thanks!
I have an SE FDHD that looks like it's good and working that's coming in on Friday. (Sad thing is I'm leaving on a plane tomorrow, so gotta wait to play with it) My goal this week was to get a brand new Mac Mini (the top configuration at the brick-and-mortar Apple store) and a retro Mac SE. I grew up on Macs, and my family owned just about every Mac imaginable. I recall having a Plus, LC, SE30, IIsi, etc, but never an SE FDHD. I love the appeal of the Plus, but wanted the 1.44mb floppy capability for use with the BMOW emulator.
I purchased the floppy emulator sold at Big Mess of Wires with all the extras. Looks like that's coming in tomorrow as well.
I have OS X Yosemite on my new Mini. I want to be able to sneaker-net files to and from the SE. Any good way of doing that?
Also, I would really like to have a good working hard drive on the SE so I can load up all this awesome software for it in one place. Is there a go-to drive that people are using? I'd rather not open the case if I don't have to.
Is there anything I need to watch out for? The seller indicated no screen flicker, and it looks like it has 4mb of RAM and was booted in the pictures to System 7 with no floppy inserted.
Thanks!