Re: which mac to buy?
Would you guy prefer one with an IDE controller?
Then, the Quadra 630 or Performa 637CD. Only problem, no Nubus slots. 1 LC
PDS slot, limited to 36mb ram.
I have the above working motheboard with the 68LC040 (broken FPU) Cpu. Uses
standard 72 pin
fpm IBM-compataible RAM chips: 1,4,8,16, or 32.
Any other Quadra with Nubus slots would be more flexible, and would allow
you to test
a wide variety of peripherals that use the NUBUS slots: video cards, ATTO
SCSI-2 cards,
etc.
Got my eye on a few EBAY auctions for Quadra boxes. You guys have a Mac
monitor? keyboards, mice?
hank
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Schmitz" <schmitz@mail.biophys.uni-duesseldorf.de>
To: "Christian T. Steigies" <cts@debian.org>
Cc: "James P. Schmidt" <jps@ans.net>; "Debian m68k"
<debian-68k@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Tuesday, July 04, 2000 12:45 PM
Subject: Re: which mac to buy?
> [I basically agree with James not to recommend a 030 model, except for the
> unlikely case you want to spend your time improving the upcoming
> pseudo-DMA SCSI and tuning interrupt stuff ...]
>
> > On Tue, Jul 04, 2000 at 12:41:17PM +0000, James P. Schmidt wrote:
> > > > Macintosh Quadra 700, 610
> > >
> > > 68040s... getting better... maybe if you only had $25 to spend...
> > thats more like $200..., the IIx would be $50.
>
> $200 for a 700 is high, though that one would be best supported at the
> moment I guess.
>
> >
> > > > Power Macintosh 8100/80 (this is powerpc?)
> > > > Power Macintosh 8100/100AV
> > > > Power Macintosh 9500/12
> > >
> > > There we go, my first choices. Fastest out of anything in the list;
> > > actually, it's strange how your list goes in order of increasing speed
> > > and power. (FYI, any Mac with 4 digits in the name is a PowerPC, i.e.
not
> > > 68k.)
> > 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...
>
> The 8100 are Nubus Powermacs IIRC; so no (or very preliminary) LinuxPPC.
> The 9500 I dunno, check the LinuxPPC.org machine support page.
>
> > I just looked on ebay, ie Quadra 950, lots of RAM, large SCSI disk for
$140,
> > so it seems the offer I got is a little expensive...
> > Ok, SCSI is not supported, neither ADB (does it have an IDE controller
> > then?) but then I could do some hacking agin :-)
>
> SCSI and ADB are both supported in recent kernels (ADB since mid-99, SCSI
> since way before that but you had to take care not to let the kernel probe
> the external bus. Should be fixed in the Debian 2.2.10 kernel according to
> my source.
>
> The 950 should be even better than the 700 but I have no info on the
> status of the external bus (it uses two 53C96 controllers wired to the
> same interrupt so in theory it should work now).
>
> The Quadra and Performa 630 were IDE machines, to answer that question,
> also one of the 1xx Powerbooks (totally useless hardware for Linux) at
> least.
>
> Michael
>
>
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