On 2007-08-24 13:19:16 -0500, sampsal@gmail.com said:
> I've got an old SE/30 that I want to hook up to the Internet. Now the > machine has no built in Ethernet card (I've looked and the SE/30 > specific ones are like pixie dust) and only has those funky little 8- > pin serial ports on the back.
Actually, I have such an SE/30 card, an Asante MacCon SE/30 PDS Ethernet card, and it has the standard RJ-45 Ethernet port in addition to an 8-pin port:
I have two such cards (another similar one also from Asante for the first-model SE). From experience, I can tell you this is a *great* card - works flawlessly, and is worth every penny if you can manage to get your hands on one. With mine, my little SE/30, Zippy, runs a 24/7 web server here:
<http://zippy.kicks-asss.org:9997>
Incidentally, I see one of these on auction RIGHT NOW, so you may want to jump on it!:
<http://tinyurl.com/26sd23>
If you want to win this auction, I highly advise you not to bid until the very last minute (I'm talking 30 seconds or less, depending on your connection speed and how comfortable you are that you can get your bid to go through in that amount of time) and bid *high* to ensure you win (a.k.a. "sniping").
Re: sniping - In case you are not aware, when you bid high (let's say you choose $62.50) what'll happen is eBay will automatically bid just high enough to beat the current highest bid (in this case $49.95), then eBay will look for anyone else who has bid higher, and will automatically increase their bid just enough to beat yours. eBay will automatically go back and forth like that until the highest bidder wins - this all happens very fast, so don't give anyone a chance to manually up their bid - just wait until the last 30 seconds, bid as high as you want, and cross your fingers! Also, in case you're not aware, there are a coupe (maybe three) pages you go through when you bid, the last once being a confirmation page. So at about 1 minute remaining, Iusually go ahead and start the bid and get it all the way to the last confirmation page, so that at the 30-20 second mark, I can just click "Bid" on that page to have my bid go through at the last second. ; )
Good luck!
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