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Grex Micros Item 210: The Micros Short Question item
Entered by omni on Sat Jul 24 06:55:03 UTC 1999:

  

    we have no short question item, so I might as well start one.

  First up.. I have a 20M SCSI HD (apple) and I am thinking about putting it
in one of my Plusses. How hard is this, and what do I need to get it done?
Will the Plus support an internal HD?

12 responses total.

#1 of 12 by n8nxf on Mon Jul 26 11:22:30 1999:

The Plus has no internal SCSI connector and the power supply can not
handle the needed power, nor is there a connector.  Internal heat would
also be a problem.  Get yourself a $10 SE.  That will take an internal
HD.

#2 of 12 by omni on Mon Jul 26 16:38:06 1999:

  I have a SE. I'm planning on building a external HD using that drive.

#3 of 12 by n8nxf on Tue Jul 27 11:20:07 1999:

Why would you want to put it inside a Plus if it already was inside a SE?

#4 of 12 by omni on Tue Jul 27 16:01:44 1999:

 no, no, no. I wanted to put another drive inside the plus. But since it
cannot be done, the point is moot.

#5 of 12 by kevco on Tue Aug 10 04:29:34 1999:

Anyone know a good source for SE's?  I've got one that I use a terminal 
on a linux box.  It's actually pretty handy and I wouldn't mind another.

#6 of 12 by omni on Tue Aug 10 05:14:44 1999:

  Kiwanis has them for around $20-30. Might even get one with a HD.

#7 of 12 by kentn on Tue Aug 10 23:46:29 1999:

The best SE they have is $35, has a HD and 1.44 floppy drive.  They
go down from there depending on size of HD and type of floppy drive.

#8 of 12 by kevco on Wed Aug 11 01:49:01 1999:

Thanks, that's great!  I was just talking w/ Sindi Keesan about donating 
some parts anyway so I can kill two birds with one stone.  =)  Any HD 
size is fine and even an 800K floppy.  As I said I'd essentially be 
using it as a dumb terminal anyway.

#9 of 12 by gull on Wed Aug 11 02:43:32 1999:

I used to use my 512K as a terminal (running it off 400K floppy.)  I
generally used Red Ryder as my terminal program...talk about your classic
apps.  That program is mentioned in _The Cuckoo's Egg_.  It's a bit sluggish
on a 512K if you have a modem faster than 1200 baud, though.

#10 of 12 by kevco on Thu Aug 12 00:25:57 1999:

I run kermit on an SE connected directly to my linux box via nullmodem 
cable right now.  It works pretty well.

#11 of 12 by kentn on Fri Aug 13 00:03:20 1999:

Re 8: if you don't mind an 800K floppy and a smaller HD you might get
one for $25 or less.  I can't recall right off hand how the lowest of
the SEs were priced.  Note that these are NOT SE 30s, but plain SEs.

#12 of 12 by oddie on Sat May 5 03:28:15 2001:

In the absence of Pagemaker 6.5, is there a way to extract text from
a PM 65 file (Windows format) on a Mac or Linux machine? I have looked
a bit on the web for this but found only AppleScripts using PageMaker
itself and utilities that only did 5.0-format files.

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