Re: IIci and parity memory
Subject: IIci and parity memory Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 12:45:11 +0200 (CEST) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco van de Voort) I hear there are two versions of the IIci, one requiring parity memory, and one not. I seem to have the non-parity one (since non-parity work), but am wondering if parity simms will work in this one, and if so, if that is global, or per bank. (this because 30-pins simms with parity are easier to find 2nd hand for large sizes) Parity SIMMs will work fine in a non-parity IIci. The extra bit will just be ignored. john -- Vintage Macs is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html Vintage Macs list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml The FAQ:http://macfaq.org/ Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/vintage.macs%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Re: IIfx VS 386DX/40 Re: IIfx online Re: Hi-Spec IIci finished
Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2002 21:04:34 -0700 (PDT) From: Gregg Eshelman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: IIfx VS 386DX/40 Re: IIfx online Re: Hi-Spec IIci finished --- Ken Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It uses 30 pin SIMMs. It's an AMD 386DX40, and has a IIT 3C87-40 coprocessor installed. Vroom! :) The IIT won't work with Linux or BSD, though, as it has some kind of breakage. If I have an ISA video card, it's probably something pretty basic like a Cirrus Logic or Trident board. That takes more digging ;) Yeah, not too many 24bit 2D video/windows accelerators were made for 16bit ISA slots. Though Sigma designs did make a triple threat 24bit acclerator, Pro Audio Spectrum 16 and 8bit Trantor SCSI card all in one 16bit ISA board. SCSI didn't have a bios so was not bootable. Personally, I'd go for a Tseng ET-4000-based video card. The old Diamond SpeedStar comes to mind. I don't think I have access to a SCSI card for this, as I could never afford to have SCSI on a PC. Well, that's not true... I have a SCSI Zip drive, and it would have come with a cheapo SCSI board. Don't know if you can boot off of those though. Nope, but eBay is literally littered with old, cheap, 16bit Adaptec SCSI cards that are bootable. Only one choice- Adaptec 1540/1542. One of the few (only?) bus-mastering ISA cards. System 7.6.1 on this IIci claims copywrite from 83-96, so I would think that 7.5.5 would be a similar era to the original release of Win95. 1996. Hmm, so it could be 7.6.1 VS Win95B. Reasonable, but I'm not sure going to Win95B is really going to gain you anything on that hardware. This raises a question, though- original OS vs. supported OS. IIRC, the IIfx shipped back in the System 6 era (early System 7, anyway) and the 386/40 came out sometime in the Win 3.1 era. OTOH, by the time Win95 came out, most shipping systems were some kind of 486 or very early pentium. The point is... should this be a 7.1/3.1 faceoff or a 7.5.5/95 faceoff? I gotta work a little harder if we really want to do this. The old PC stuff is all in pieces, and in the far, dark corners of the basement with all the spiders and dustbunnies... seems fitting though ;) Eww, you're making this sound like a computer version of Hellraiser. ;) But it's all for science, or at least good fun, right? True :-) john -- Vintage Macs is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html Vintage Macs list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml The FAQ:http://macfaq.org/ Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/vintage.macs%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Resetting EtherPrint password
I recently picked up a used Dayna EtherPrint-3 (as-is from a eBay auction). Unfortunately, it appears to have a password set on it. Anybody know how break into one/clear a forgotten password? Thanks... John -- Vintage Macs is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html Vintage Macs list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml The FAQ:http://macfaq.org/ Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/vintage.macs%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Re: linux m68k
Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 21:29:18 -0700 From: Randy Beaudreault [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: linux m68k Message-id: a05100300b7a24918497a@[192.168.1.2] Subject: linux m68k on IIfx Hi, Scott or anyone else who knows about such things I'm interested in trying out linux on my PowerBook 150. On the Debian page I couldn't find whether it's supported. Do you know if it is. Edwin Lowe Ok, I've had enough and now I have to add my $.11. Why are you bothering with Linux? NetBSD is the one to go with on 68k Macs. I've put it on my IIci and Q800 and both run flawlessly. Why go with linux? NetBSD is a mature UNIX for 68k Macs. The only drawback to it is the non-support for the oddball machines, IIvx and Q950, and non-FPU Quadra/Centris/LC machines. For further reference try here: http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/mac68k/ And for you info Edwin, there is an Xserver for this port. But you will need some memory for it. And judging from LEMs info on this powerbook, you just may be able to install NetBSD on your machine unless it has funny I/O stuff. Unfortunately, Edwin was a PB150 which has one funky piece of I/O- the IDE controller. Currently, there is no NetBSD support for IDE on the mac68k. There was some work done a while back, but it never was folded into the baseline. john -- Vintage Macs is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | - Epson Stylus Color 740 Printers refurbished $79 | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html Vintage Macs list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml The FAQ:http://macfaq.binhost.com/ Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/vintage.macs%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Macintosh? Get free email and more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Re: linux m68k
From: Cameron Kaiser [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: linux m68k Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 05:47:24 -0700 (PDT) I definitely agree -- satisfied user of NetBSD on a IIci with a Daystar '030 50MHz, Quantum Empire 2.05GB, 128MB RAM, and two Farallon EtherWave NuBus NICs. I like this computer, and NetBSD drives it well. It serves the internal network's DNS and AppleTalk, soon will do POP, and runs a web and gopher gateway to boot. Linux/68k is experimental and fraught with peril, but NetBSD is mature, developed and supported. Plus eminently more secure, coming from the same lineage that developed OpenBSD (one tough box to crack), and smaller and more compact since it doesn't suffer from the bloat infesting today's Linux distros. A minor nit... OpenBSD is actually derived from NetBSD, following a political/philosophical split. john -- Vintage Macs is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | - Epson Stylus Color 740 Printers refurbished $79 | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html Vintage Macs list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml The FAQ:http://macfaq.binhost.com/ Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/vintage.macs%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Macintosh? Get free email and more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
