But in happier news...

[beskippy]

my weekend has been fairly productive.  Yesterday I ran around doing a few errands - picked up some pellets for the baby bunnies, picked up our reel lawnmower for my wife, grabbed some old SCSI gear from Cal's Computer Warehouse.  Set the deck height on the mower so that it might work in our bumpy yard, and went to an art show to hear my old piano

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[beskippy]

Sounds good to me! Let me know if you get around to unpacking - I know how it can go. It took me about a year after moving to go through the old boxes... and even then, sometimes I just consolidated several boxes into one smaller box and a large garbage bag... so there's STILL boxes of stuff. One of them has spare Zip disks, and I have no idea where they have gone.

I used to have a bunch of SCSI stuff, but my old company at one point was using 68-pin HD cables for some project, and I (foolishly) brought out my old SCSI gear to help them out. About the only thing I really had left at home was some 50-pin ribbon cables, which really hasn't been too big of a problem.

[epi_lj]

Awesome win on the working enclosure! :)

[beskippy]

Yeah, I was pretty stoked about it. The guys at the store don't really care about the price of stuff, they just want it to move. I found some external SCSI CD-ROMs (in enclosures) for $40-50 each, but no empty enclosures. External Jaz drives were about $25 each, but this one tucked away in a generic enclosure was a lot cheaper, so I went with it.

Once my HD50-to-Centronics cable gets here in a few days, I can finally hook the thing up to my PC and get sampling! I also ordered a 50-pin to 68-pin internal adapter, so that should let me grab an old HD from Cal's for $10 to use as the scratch disk for the Emu... probably a lot less wear-and-tear than using the Zip as the main editing disk.