ARCHIVED: Anyone got a 50 pin SCSI drive to revive my Mc IIci?

[pdq]

Moving, and booted up my dusty old Mac IIci to see if it still lived; the 80 MB hard drive went grinding to life - well, it spun up, but no joy.

I would guess the drive is dead (just from the sound). Does anyone have a functional SCSI drive that still lives and needs a new home? Any size is okay.

(Not sure how I'm going to get OS 7 on to it, but I'll bet I can do it somehow).

[SKYLANE]

I have Installation CDs in the garage with 7.6, 8.0, 8.5 & 9.1 on them...

[Harbourmaster]

When I was moving 2 years ago I gave Pat a bin full of small SCSI drives that were already loaded up with 7.1 and software for vintage toasters … send him a PM and see if he can send one to you.

[pdq]

SKYLANE wrote:
I have Installation CDs in the garage with 7.6, 8.0, 8.5 & 9.1 on them...

What is this "CD" you speak of? :wink:

Actually, I do too, but I don't have a SCSI CD drive or drive+SCSI case any more, and the Iici was well before USB. I found disk images of 7.x install floppies on the internet and I do have (strangely enough) a USB external floppy drive that I could possibly use to make a 7.x install set of floppies that I could then use to install said OS on to the hard drive of the Iici (if I can find a 50 pin SCSI drive that still works).

Harbourmaster wrote:
When I was moving 2 years ago I gave Pat a bin full of small SCSI drives that were already loaded up with 7.1 and software for vintage toasters … send him a PM and see if he can send one to you.

Thanks - I just sent a PM to "Pat".

[ArtP]

Keep us posted if you find (or don't find and still need)- I have a old box of pre - USB mac stuff in boxes in the basement.

May go digging soon.

I recently found out about the Vintage Mac sub/ on Reddit. Looks like people still care about the boxes of worthless "garbage" I "may" have.

Edit: last time I looked I saw a SCSI terminator and was reminded of how elegant Firewire and todays USB and eventually Thunderbolt is/was.

[Pat]

Okay.
Found a 40MB Quantum ProDrive marked 7.1, Performa.
Grabbed my IIci. Need to get a power cord and a monitor and we'll see what happens.
There's another unmarked drive with the same form factor I'll try out too.

[Buzz]

I'll have to look deeper, but definitely have some SCSI drives around here somewhere, but they may be UWSCSI or U2WSCSI, not sure about vanilla SCSI.... at some point I had Nubus SCSI cards, but they likely made their way to/thru Harbourmaster/Pat. On the easy to find scale, I do have a two bay SCSI enclosure w/ a (slow) CDRW and a partitioned SCSI HDD, that IIRC are flavors of OS 9.x. It hooks up to an old school PM desktop via a 50 pin centrex to DB25 pin Mac SCSI cable, so it would bolt right onto the IIci (but it's right there on the closet shelf).

Where is your IIci hiding?
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