[rescue] Mac Appliance

[Ken Hansen]

I have a line on a Quadra 660AV, can't really decide if I want it, price may
be right...

Is this a reasonable/fun machine? 25MHz 68040 w/ spiffy DSP chip for video
applications...

Thoughts? I'd need to get all the trimmings too (keyboard, video
monitor/adapter - I think I have RAM, HD covered)...

Ken

----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian Hechinger" <wonko at arkham.ws>
To: <rescue at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2001 12:18 PM
Subject: Re: [rescue] Mac Appliance


> On Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 11:43:34AM -0400, joshua d boyd wrote:
> > I'm looking at a pretty loaded LCIII for next to nothing, and due to how
>
> mmmmm LC III  nice little box, just got an LC II today along with a bunch
of
> 5200 series boxes and various others (about 30 total) hmmmmm.  these
things
> are SLOW (MacOS 7.6.1)  603/PPC or something like that.  *brain melting*
>
> > small it is, I'm thinking Server appliance.  Uh, that then brings to
mind,
> > anyone know how happy old macs are about being run headless?  To run
>
> it should be doable, don't know if you can get a serial console or not
though.
>
> > NetBSD on a Mac 68k, you have to do something like loadlin, except it is
a
> > Mac instead of DOS program, and you are loading NetBSD, not Linux.  But,
> > apparently, you can't just boot straight to NetBSD.  But, you probably
> > could have the System 7 startup sequence boot NetBSD, couldn't you?
>
> nobody wants to be bothered to write a bootloader/whatever that gets
called
> from the ROM, small partition for MacOS just to get NetBSD going.  and
yes, you
> can make it automatically do that.  it's ugly, but it works.
>
> > Oh well, just a thought.  Didn't know if maybe anyone had tried it.
>
> i haven't messed with BSD on the 68k macs in a couple years, so i'm a bit
rusty
> (used to run MacBSD on a IIx before it got merged into NetBSD)
>
> > Actually, it seems someone did try it.  Just short pins 4 and 11.
>
> cool.
>
> > Hmm, now, do I really want yet another box...
>
> i just got 30 old macs today.  so what so you think my answer to that
question
> will be??  :)
>
> -brian
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