Re: QuadDoubler

[Damond Walker]

> In my opinion, the QuadDoubler is not much more than
> a curiosity


It amazes me that they still insist on selling these things for as much as
they do.  They ought to be giving them away these days...

Damond


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NetBSD or Linux on 68k machines...

[Damond Walker]

Hello all,

I've given up on the PPC card.  I think it's smoked (unless someone in
the Newark, DE or Elkton, MD area would like to try it in their 68k machine
just to verify my conclusion).  Anyway...

I'm thinking about getting an external drive and installing NetBSD or
Linux (saving the internal drive for MacOS 8.1).  Anyone on the list have
any experience they would like to share with running NetBSD or Linux on 68k
class machines (with a 68040)?

Damond


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Re: PPC Cards

[Damond Walker]

>
> Did you get the PowerPC Card control panel installed?  That's probably a
> problem. Remove the card, zap the PRAM, restart, make sure that CP is
> installed, and then reinstall the card.
>

Just to verify, by the "PowerPC Card" control panel do we mean the "601
Upgrade" item or does it actually say "PowerPC Card?"

Tried the cmd-opt-P-R option and it didn't seem to do anything.



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Re: PPC Cards

[Damond Walker]

> On the other hand, not having the adapter in a computer that requires the
> adapter, that can cause failure to boot - it did with my Daystar
PowerCache
> card, which requires an adapter for use in my IIsi. In the quote above,
the
> original poster doesn't mention inserting the adapter card for the 6100 -
> could that be the problem?

I have the PPC card, the adapter hardware, etc.

Should of said that originally.  ;)

I did get the thing to seat properly.  Tonight I'm going to flash the PRAM
and see what that does for me (after checking to make sure all the CP items
are installed and checked).

Damond



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Re: PPC Cards

[Damond Walker]

>
> Did you get the PowerPC Card control panel installed?  That's probably a
> problem. Remove the card, zap the PRAM, restart, make sure that CP is
> installed, and then reinstall the card.
>

The machine is at home right now but...

I installed the universal ("fat"?) system and I can see all the 601
extensions loaded for the PPC stuff.

Havn't flashed the PRAM yet because, well, I don't know where/how to do
it.  Any good site on the Cen610 with this documentation?

Thanks all.



Damond


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PPC Cards

[Damond Walker]

I bought a PPC card (with adapter) off of ebay because the seller said it
would work with a Centris 610.  Looking over the card and adapter I'm
thinking it's from Apple itself (though not being Mr. Familiar with apple
hardware -- maybe the "(C) Apple" over the cards doesn't mean a thing).

I'm not 100% sure this is an Apple PPC card or a Sonnet card (I've seen
pictures on Sonnet's site which look like the card in question (with heat
sink, etc).  Looks identical.

Anyway.  I took my system 8 CD and did a "universal" installation of the
system (I'm assuming this means the full PPC and 68k install).  I rebooted
the little guy and he came up fine.

I powered down, inserted the card, applied power and...well...nothing
happened.  The drive spins but nothing else happens?

Do I have to pull the CPU from the MB or is the PPC card smoked?

Damond


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Re: Absolute beginner: Centris 610

[Damond Walker]

I also got a 610 about a week ago (complete with manuals, a real 68040,
monitor adapter, keyboard, etc).  It's a nice little machine that I had
hoped to install NetBSD -- to be honest with you all it'll probably just
stick to MacOS into the distant future.  It came with Word and Excel
installed (Word is v6 -- loads in about 8 to 10 seconds -- not bad for an
ancient 20mhz machine).

Anyway, I'm looking around the net for software to install on this machine
(which runs system 8).  The problem is is that when I burn a CD at the
office (PC stuff) and bring it home the Mac treats the contents of the CD as
text files instead of the binary files they are.

Short of hooking all my network stuff up again what's the easiest way to
transfer software?  If you copy of Mac binary from a PC created CD/RW how do
you tell the Mac that the file in question is actually a binary (executable)
file instead of a text file?

I'm a MacOS newbie if you havn't already guessed.

Damond




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