[geeks] scsi notebook drives

Peter L. Wargo pwargo at basenji.com
Sat Jun 8 00:17:10 CDT 2002


On Friday, June 7, 2002, at 09:36 PM, Tim H. wrote:

> Thanks Pete

Anytime.

> That is slick, I guess I better stick a nubus video card in that thing 
> and see if I have the software to talk to it.  Looks like it has 8M, 
> which from the page appears to be max.  Somebody spent a bunch of 
> money. The IIfx was the biggest at the time wasn't it?  It has a 3com 
> NIC in it also, until I acquired this box I wasn't aware that 3com had 
> done any stuff for Apple.  Looks like that hamfest was a success, My 
> friend and I sold a bunch of stuff that someone else just wanted gone, 
> and acquired a Mac IIfx, a 610 (I think it was a Centris) a PMac 5400, 
> and another Mac II, I forget which one it was now, and had a little 
> cash left over.  We paid like $40, so I got my money's worth out of the 
> 5400.

The IIfx is one of the "best macs ever" in my book.  It was $10K new.

I've got one set up with 32M and a 500M disk.  Nice system. ;-)

_pete



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