On May 18, 2004, at 11:10 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Heh heh. :) Just before my last move, I had to throw out my first Mac - a C650. It's physically a little larger than the SE/30. And I'd have to trick it into booting without a monitor, I think. Upgrading a Q605 with a full 040 would be the same thing in about the perfect case. I thought all the Quadras had built-in AAUI ethernet though.
All except the 605 - more is the pity!
The LC475 case is slimmer than the Q605 - and stood on edge it'll happily sit in small places. I used to have one stuffed in a desk drawer with no lid running MacHTTP and MacDNS and it ran forever.
Part of the attraction of the SE/30 (for NetBSD) is that it is kind of neat to run a modern OS on what is essentially the lowest-end Mac capable of it. (Other 16MHz Macs are inferior for other design reasons - but still it's only a 16MHz 030.)
And I keep hoping I'll find a CC to Takky. :)
I decided UNIX on All-In-One Macs is a bad idea becuase you can't turn the CRT off - thus the power draw is large. I had BSD running on my Mystic CC for a while but eventually gave up on that idea as it sat un-interacted with for ages at a time and I was scared I'd burn the screen in. Remember the brightness control in the CC is software controlled, and as far as I know there is no control to either turn it down or deactivate the screen in NetBSD.
I did find a recent reference of a guy in Japan running a Daystar 040 in his SE/30, so I guess it does work! Give it a shot; NetBSD is cool. I'm hoping to get it up on my Q840AV soon - just to have "both ends" of the 68k spectrum.
840avs are wasted running UNIX as they have a lot of AV stuff that is Mac OS specific (unless someone has developed a DSP interface for it for NetBSD??) If you want a big box 68k server you are better off with a 950 or an 800. Granted the CPU is slower but I hate to see good AV features go to waste :-)
Any way to know if my SIMMs are 70 or 80 ns?
On each individual chip on the SIMM there should be a number. That will end in '8', '-8' or '80' if they are 80ns or '7', '-7' or '70' if they are 70ns.
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