Just arrived: Asante EN/SC!

Just got this in the mail. It's an Asante EN/SC, minus the enclosure or an adapter. I happened to be doing some research one day this past November and stumbled across someone with one on Flickr. I messaged the guy (Thanks Steve!) and mentioned how I've been wanting to get one of these, I have all of these old Macs, etc. He was super warm and receptive, mentioned he had one complete, one non working, and another working one with no case or adapter. After working out the details with him over the holidays, he was able to test it, and finally sent it along to me for $20. It proves that most of the time, you just have to ask.

I also had happened to pick up an Asante EtherTalk adapter at the thrift store complete in box 2 months or so ago, with a 12VAC 1250mA adapter, which is the exact adapter that the EN/SC uses.

Now I just have to either acquire an empty case for it...not very likely, or build a case for it. I'm thinking a very slick looking stained wood or maybe aluminum? Thoughts?

Anyone out there a skilled wood or metal worker? Haha.

It's nice to know there are people out there that are enthusiastic about the hobby and are actually nice people. I truly restores my faith in humanity.

I'm looking forward to getting this thing working!

If there's anything anyone else can tell me about it, I'm all ears.

I would worry about the cable first. What are you going to hook this up to?

I'm not worried about the cable I have plennnnty of SCSI cables, and every other cable I would ever need for that matter.

I have a Classic, a Plus, and I'm looking for a reasonably priced SE/30.

I got one for one of my SE's that had a 68030/16 upgrade card in the PDS slot so I can't have an ethernet card (my other SE and both my SE30's have ethernet PDS cards).

Looks nice.

By the way, what's the purpose and intent of a "Asante EN/SC" card?

It's an ethernet to SCSI interface. The older macs do not have a way to create an ethernet interface for use with TCP/IP, only localtalk using the modem or printer port, 9-pin. This will allow the SCSI port to be used for a TCP/IP connection.

I have one of these cards that I've used to hook up my Mac Plus to the Internet. This Mac was upgraded to 4MB and also has a SCSI hard disk off the SCSI bus. I can't remember if it has System 6 or 7. I was able to bring it up, but honestly, I didn't do that much with it.

-Matt

The Asante EN/SC adapter -- what a great device!

I've used one for getting a Mac Plus on the internet via NCSA telnet/ftp, and MacWeb 1.1.1.

What's really cool with the Plus is that you can run System Software 6 and your NCSA telnet from just the internal floppy drive and an external Apple 3.5" drive -- with NO hard drive. So you can have this basically silent machine sitting there as a web server running on just floppy disks. Tons of fun