27 Jun
2003
27 Jun
'03
8:52 p.m.
At 06:00 PM 6/28/03 +1000, you wrote:
Fresh from a local garage sale, picked up an Apple LC
II plus monitor and
some documentation for twenty bucks and am wondering about a few things:
Firstly does anyone have the wiring details for the SCSI conector at
the back or know where I might get it??
The pinout is on hardwarebook.net, getting a ready made cable should be
easy enough though. The same connector is used for narrow SCSI on all Macs
with onboard SCSI, Amiga and some PC SCSI cards.
Secondly does anyone know what plugs into the
white 96 way connector
near the back left of the mother board labeled J20?? I have an Apple LC III
with something plugged into this conector and would love to know what it
does.
LC PDS expansion bus. Most commonly used for network cards. Video cards,
sound cards, accelerators and Apple ][e emulation cards for this slot are
also available
I have a LC III that I picked up ages ago, and
would love to have
them "talking", can anyone give me some details on the "apple talk"
conector.
If you only want to connect 2 machines a mac printer cable (8 pin mini-DIN
to 8 pin mini-DIN) will work. For more than 2 machines you'll need
Appletalk pigtails and cables. The pinout for the connector is on
hardwarebook.net, but I haven't been able to find a schematic for the
Appletalk pigtail anywhere. They shouldn't be that hard to find.
Can some Apple fan direct me to a nice juicy
apple Tech site, I have
never used these systems but they seem to be working, i'd love to get them
going with a few other extras, but will need some more detailed info.
lowendmac.com has specifications and other info for old macs as well as
mailing lists specific to various systems (compact macs, pre-040 68K, 040,
nubus PPC, etc).
LCs are pretty limited. If you do get into macs more it shouldn't be hard
to pick up more powerful 68K machines cheap. I started out in macs with
LCs, but later got myself a IIfx and a Quadra 950 for $10 each :)