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Quadra 950 - any use?
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Hi
I have a friend who is getting rid of a Quadra 950. I would like to take it off his hands. Do I have any use for it? Can i put some version of linux on it?
Please give me some ideas!!
Thanks
Jagga
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MkLinux or any of the other 68K Linux disto's will work fine with it.
Use it as a router or a low-capacity server of some sort.
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I recently shot my old 7100/80. Hell, the motherboard was fried anyway.
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Originally posted by The Jackalope:
<STRONG>I recently shot my old 7100/80. Hell, the motherboard was fried anyway.</STRONG>
**** YEA!!!
What kind of gun did ya use? Caliber?
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Thanks for your replies. I'll see if i can use it as a file server of some sort to go with my imac's lousy 6gig harddrive. Any idea what kind of drives I could fit into the quadra (hard drives)?
Jagga
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Originally posted by The Dude:
<STRONG>
**** YEA!!!
What kind of gun did ya use? Caliber?
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A semi-auto Imbel FAL clone. .308. A bunch of friends went shooting in early october in Wisconsin at this public land shooting range. We brought a bunch of dead computer monitors, old radios, my 7100, some bowling pins, and a mannican head. Hours of fun!
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Originally posted by jagga:
<STRONG>Thanks for your replies. I'll see if i can use it as a file server of some sort to go with my imac's lousy 6gig harddrive. Any idea what kind of drives I could fit into the quadra (hard drives)?
Jagga</STRONG>
I think they were SCSI. Any internal (or external) SCSI drive should work.
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They make nice answering machines... You could also make a little server out of it... and about a million other things...
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Our sysadmin here is using one as a bookend.
Mike
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Mine still runs Photoshop 4, and Illustrator 5 quite handily. It has a floppy drive, and I've got a CD rom, a zip 100, and a 44 meg Cyquest SCSI'd up to it, and it sits up front in the sales dept, so they can stuff disks in to look at without having to bother me. I was using it as my email machine until last year, when we finally got RoadRunner. It's "maxed" out, with a 400 mb + 500 mb external drive, and 40 megs of RAM. Whoo, hoo!
Besides, it's amusing to sit down to system 7.6 every once in a while, just to remenisce.
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Originally posted by Cipher13:
<STRONG>MkLinux or any of the other 68K Linux disto's will work fine with it.
Use it as a router or a low-capacity server of some sort.</STRONG>
MkLinux is PowerPC.
AFAIK, there are no Linux distros that run on it, but I do believe that NetBSD will. (I may be wrong, it's been a long time since I looked into 68K linux.)
I'd use it as a print server or as a router, using IPNetRouter.
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why don't you run A/UX on it... if u managed to get the media (try google search)
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Originally posted by tooki:
<STRONG>
MkLinux is PowerPC.
AFAIK, there are no Linux distros that run on it, but I do believe that NetBSD will. (I may be wrong, it's been a long time since I looked into 68K linux.)
I'd use it as a print server or as a router, using IPNetRouter.
tooki</STRONG>
Linux M68K should though.
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Originally posted by tooki:
<STRONG>
MkLinux is PowerPC.
AFAIK, there are no Linux distros that run on it, but I do believe that NetBSD will. (I may be wrong, it's been a long time since I looked into 68K linux.)
I'd use it as a print server or as a router, using IPNetRouter.
tooki</STRONG>
Obviously, I was talking about the 68K distro...
I have A/UX if you want it.
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I have one of those...sitting on a shelf.
Would you be interested in some RAM or an Apple branded Power PC 601 card.
It might help get it working a little faster, and these parts are just collecing dust at my house.
Let me known
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