A mountain of old Macs

Christopher Wagner chrisw at pacaids.com
Fri Jan 18 00:26:30 PST 2002


The old Macintoshes used SCSI hardware, as well.  Maybe you could RAID a
half dozen drives together and get some reasonable access times.  Dunno how
big the drives in those LC's are..

As for running Linux on one, be prepared for some bugs.  I haven't tried
Debian on the 68k processor..  I've tried mkLinux.  Quite a few commands
were different for me.  But I wish you the best of luck! :)

- Christopher Wagner

-----Original Message-----
From: Lincoln Peters [mailto:lincoln_peters at hotmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2002 5:26 PM
To: talk at nblug.org
Subject: A mountain of old Macs


I just discovered that in the microscope lab at RCHS, there is a table at
the edge of the room that is piled with old Macintosh LC's piled on it, as
well as at least one Apple IIgs.  Nobody has been able to explain them, so
I'm guessing that they got so outdated that they weren't very useful anymore
(?), but nobody knew what to do with them.  Now, everyone has either a Dell
or a newer Macintosh (an iMac or a G3; I've heard rumors that someone has
G4's, but I've never seen them), and I'm still looking for soemone who would
take Isildur (the donated Linux workstation).

I'm trying to think of something useful to do with them, and I remember that
Debian supports the m68k architecture.  Isn't that what the old Macintoshes
use?  Has anyone ever tried running Linux on an old Macintosh?  I'm guessing
that if they could run Linux, they could do almost anything that a Linux
system with similar Intel-based hardware could do.


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