Something like a $5 eBay PCMCIA CF adapter + and a < $10 4/ CF card is a good investment though for any vintage Mac portable computing, as it does make it so much easier to get software onto an older machine without having to search for SCSI cables, external drives and the like. It should also boot up off the CF card, but don't expect any earth-shattering performance from the CF device. Some disk operations are considerably faster and others not so