Re: which mac to buy?
On Tue, 4 Jul 2000, Christian T. Steigies wrote:
> Yup, thats PPC, Id really love to have a PPC, but that would not help the
> debian/m68k project, would it? Also they would be twice as expensive as the
> Quadras...
ebay has a quadra 700, 8/80 (stock configs) for $10 right now... hell,
there's an 840AV *with* monitor for $20... most of the older 040 models
had AAUI, so Ethernet is just a matter of getting a transceiver.
> Ok, SCSI is not supported, neither ADB (does it have an IDE controller
> then?) but then I could do some hacking agin :-)
As far as I know, there are no Apple 68k boxes that support IDE; they were
all SCSI. IDE was something they decided to move to when they took their
huge leap to PowerPC.
Now, what does "SCSI is not supported, neither ADB" mean? I've installed
debian on my quadra 800, which has scsi and adb; does debian not do those
devices? Every Mac ever made (except for the iMacs and the 128/512/Plus
machines from 1984) supports both scsi and adb right out of the box, so I'm
a bit confused.
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