looking for a 2400c part....

[Leigh Honeywell]

specifically, the cable that goes from the hdd to the motherboard.  
please don't ask how i lost it :-(

shipping to toronto ontario canada, M6J 3C7
thanks listers!
-Leigh
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Re: Unix desperation - do I need a bigger HD?

[Leigh Honeywell]

This one might just be the ticket...  Thanks a bunch,

Leigh


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I bet MacMinix (*) would work. I haven't used it. It's very small--
with source code, 8 floppies-- and you don't even need a hard drive!
I think it runs in a MacOS window, so the video should be handled
automatically.  You'll probably want to use vi instead of Emacs, and
I'm not sure if the C compiler is gcc but I think gcc is available.

I might try it out myself on a Duo 250, if I get the time...

 

Yes, but big SCSI laptop drives are pretty scarce.


(*) What I think I remember about Minix-- it was developed when AT&T
stopped letting colleges use the actual Unix source code for classes.
It was originally designed for early PCs (8088s and up!) and designed
so that students could recompile their systems with two floppies and
no hard drives.  The complete source code is in the developer's book,
which I think was called _Introduction to Operating Systems_.  BTW,
the developer's name is Andrew Tannenbaum (if I've spelled it
correctly).  

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More thoughts on the PB170 HD

[Leigh Honeywell]

In that, maybe I should jsut get a bigger one.  Searched high and lo on 
Google, but couldn't figure this out - are the hard drives in the 
powerbooks just standard SCSI drives, or should I be looking for 
specifically a "notebook" drive?

Thanks

Leigh



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Unix desperation - do I need a bigger HD?

[Leigh Honeywell]

Starting to accept that I'm not going to be able to get Linux onto my 
PB170.  For anyone that's familiar with it, I get to the screen with the 
benguin, then the console does not load.  So my next bet is to try 
NetBSD - or perhaps FreeBSD?  I'm really not sure here.

Aslo, I'm not sure if the 40mb HD in the 170 is going to cut it.  I need 
a minimal system folder (2mb) and room for ClarisWorks and a few megs of 
docs, so say a 5 or 10mb MacOS partition.  4mb of Swap space leaves me 
with a 25mb linux/netbsd/whatever partition.  All I want on it, as 
stated before, is gcc and an editor.  Is this going to cut it in any 
way, and how the heck do I get started?

Barring the possibility of what I described above, what are the 
prospects for a bigger HD in the 170?  to I jsut go find a big SCSI 
drive of the same (physical) size and pop it in?  I'm feeling more and 
more lost by the minute here, so any help would be appreciated.

Thanks all,


Leigh Honeywell

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Re: Your first PowerBook

[Leigh Honeywell]

Hmm.  I may give that a try as well - the only two applications I need 
to run on it are gcc and emacs, so if they work I'm all set.

-Leigh


On Tuesday, December 10, 2002, at 03:10  PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
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> Leigh Honeywell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> I'll be posting soon with the results of the Linux experiment - the 
>> 170
>> isn't on the list of supported systems, but it's worth a try...
>
> It's on NetBSD's list, if you're not too attached to Linux.
> It looks as though they even got the X-Window system to work!
>
> The PB170 I had was my first, and so far the only one with an FPU
> (Duo 230, 250, and PB 540C are the others).  X-lisp-Stat (a freely
> available statistics package) ran pretty well.


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Re: Your first PowerBook

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On Tuesday, December 10, 2002, at 12:39  PM, Rick McCutcheon wrote:

>> On 2002-12-10 05:43, "Andrew Kershaw" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>> what was your first PowerBook?
>>
>
> A PB170 that still sits in a place of honour on our phone table.
[snip]
> Cheers,
> Rick

Just joined the list, as I acquired a PB170 on Saturday via the Swap 
list.  It's my first portable computer (other than a Handspring Visor) 
and I'm planning on installing Linux on it (or at least attempting it) 
so I can continue my adventures in learning programming on the road, as 
they say.  It shares a 400MB SCSI hard drive with my SE/30 (acquired in 
the same Swap) and will soon be semi-online via the SE/30.

I'll be posting soon with the results of the Linux experiment - the 170 
isn't on the list of supported systems, but it's worth a try...

-Leigh


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