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Calum:
ok, looks like i am getting the install disks for system 7 on ebay, and luckily the upgrades to 7.6 including the UK stuff are available as disk images.
secondly i am hoping to get the asante thing from a guy in the states, however it will cost me about 40 bucks to get it to scotland. also, its power supply expects a 110v input so that will have to be replaced. this may well be a misguided question for here, but does anybody have an idea what the shape of the interface is on this adaptor, so i can get an idea whether it will be easy to source a replacement power adaptor? what i mean is, do you know the shape of the power input thing. the adaptor itself takes a 12v input, however i haven't even thought yet about whether i need to consider the amperes as well, i am hoping this tolerance is built in as it is with laptops and such (so the same laptop can be marketed round the world with just a different power adaptor) but for now all i am worried about is the physical shape of the power adaptor input to the asante device. anybody know? perhaps with a nice digital photo? :-D
thanks in advance!
Aloone_Jonez:
Can't you test it with a 12V bench PSU or car battery then measure the current with a multimeter?
Or you could try powering it from the origional power supply with a step-down transformer.
http://www.maplin.co.uk/search.aspx?MenuNo=365&MenuName=Convertors&FromMenu=y&criteria=Convertors&doy=21m6&worldid=3
The 45W unit will probably powerful enough, but if not the 200VA unit will more than do, both are less than
Orethrius:
I can't imagine that they're referring to anything but this:
for a 110v device that's (presumably) manufactured Stateside.
bedouin:
I don't have the AC powered version so I couldn't really tell you.
However I do know you've spent close to $50 on this project already; I bought a tangerine iMac for $75 last year. You could get a beige G3 for $40 or so (maybe even for free).
Calum:
hmm. good point.
well, orethrius, i didn't mean the end which goes into the wall, i meant the end which goes into the device, carrying 12v after transformation, as you know there are many different shapes of this, some earthed, some not, etc etc.
well, bedouin i suspect i won't end up getting this asante thing from the states, because it looks like some other people are quite frantic to snap it up, and i am not too eager to pay the transatlantic shipping costs. Still, they are scarce as anything here. i suppose i should just bide my time and hope for the best. somebody on the LEM UK list told me to contact the YMUG and see if any of them have an asante scsi adaptor, so maybe i will do that too.
so far my expenditure has been to buy floppies of MacOS 7.0 for GBP8.50 approx including postage. I seriously begrudge this since it is officially abandonware, however this is my only option to get install disks since apple have cunningly only made the update disks available as disk images.
they are trying to show me that there really is no such thing as a free lunch.
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