I thought I was doing pretty good, 80MB and 9GB 7200rpm drive.  Then Mr. Coombs comes along and blows me out of the water.  *humph!*  ;)

I had bought a refurb 9GB 10k drive that came with a free adapter, but it turned out that it wouldn't speak the same SCSI1 dialect.  The nice tech at the company probably talked to me for 40 minutes working through that with me.  I swapped another Mac-head - he got a faster drive for his graphics work and I got a compatible drive.  I'm amazed that Joshua's 36GB monster works...it's a freak of nature or something.  :D  At one point I had two smaller drives in it, held to the mounting bracket with lots of electrical tape.

I bought my 64MB on a dutch auction at eBay, so it was only $15.  Shipping was a flat rate not matter how many lots were purchased, so I could have splurged for the 128 for only $15 more.  But there comes a limit where even I draw the line at sinking money in an old Mac.  ;)  I had the original 4MB in the 2nd bank, but upgraded with the 16 I pulled from a IIci I got for free.

It makes a great little file server (yes it has a NIC), which was the main idea for doing this.  (Unless you count "curio piece" as a valid reason.)  If I ever get a LT-EN bridge for cheap, it'll also be a print server for my old LaserWriter.  

I do have a 50MHz '030 accelerator somewhere too, pulled from a freebie IIsi, IIRC.  When I tried it (bought a right angle adapter from Gamba) it caused some video artifacts or some other instability...I don't remember exactly.  Maybe I'll have to find it and try again.

I've given a talk on running *n*x on old Macs to my former LUG using it as a demo piece, and am scheduled for another talk with my new LUG.  I hope to my have 840AV up and running by then too.

OK, starting to wander OT, so that's it.  :)


Tim

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Tim & Alethea