Hi Apache Thunder, nice machine.
If you want to go for a SE/30 (which I highly recommend) just take your time. The prices over here (Old Europe ;D are often insane (especially on eBay) and I guess even higher than in the US. But if you take your time you will find reasonable prices for good value. Just make sure you can have a look at the motherboard before buying.
The Asanté network card (probably a MacCon+ SEET) has to be switched to TX (thick ethernet) to use the AUI (sic!) port. TN uses the coax (thin ethernet) port. It is not called *A*AUI (Apple...) but AUI - the the typical port used at that time for transceivers. They look like this http://www.automation-drive.com/EX/05-14-00/DATA4852.JPG. Asanté still has the manuals for these cards on the web: http://www.asante.com/downloads/legacy/macconmlrb.pdf
A good way to get data onto classic Macs are Zip drives IMHO. There are USB and of course SCSI versions available and 100 MB is a lot of storage space for such an old machine.
Have fun
bobo68
If you want to go for a SE/30 (which I highly recommend) just take your time. The prices over here (Old Europe ;D are often insane (especially on eBay) and I guess even higher than in the US. But if you take your time you will find reasonable prices for good value. Just make sure you can have a look at the motherboard before buying.
The Asanté network card (probably a MacCon+ SEET) has to be switched to TX (thick ethernet) to use the AUI (sic!) port. TN uses the coax (thin ethernet) port. It is not called *A*AUI (Apple...) but AUI - the the typical port used at that time for transceivers. They look like this http://www.automation-drive.com/EX/05-14-00/DATA4852.JPG. Asanté still has the manuals for these cards on the web: http://www.asante.com/downloads/legacy/macconmlrb.pdf
A good way to get data onto classic Macs are Zip drives IMHO. There are USB and of course SCSI versions available and 100 MB is a lot of storage space for such an old machine.
Have fun
bobo68