Apple WGS 95 questions

[slomacuser]

I have one WGS 95 but the motherboard is silk screened as Quadra 950 as is the sticker on the back.

1. Can any WGS 95 users check the labels on motherboard and on the back of machine?

2. Does the System 7 recognize true WGS 95 as a WGS or just as Quadra 950 in About Macintosh menu?

3. I do not nothing about Unix, is here somebody nice to guide me trough A/UX to connect the machine to the Internet and possibly make it as a file server?

Thanks!

 

[Byrd]

Hi slomacuser,

I've been playing with a Q950 with WGS card (and some of your parts, the Thunder graphics card and network card too!). I believe that with the WGS card installed, it is functionally exactly the same as a bonafode WGS95 (I think the WGS95 has a bracket to take more hard disks however)

My answers aren't definitive but trying to help

1. Don't know

2. I'd doubt it - the WGS doesn't have a Gesalt ID (looking at the "Wish I Were" utility), and System 7 doesn't really care much for the WGS card - it's really only useful in an AU/X environment. I believe it has faster SCSI speeds over the onboard SCSI and the cache RAM helps things along, but that's it.

3. Same here! I don't think I'll ever use AU/X due to it's complexity, if not familar with UNIX I'd look into running something like OS 8.1 and something like an FTP server program.

JB

 

[ojfd]

They're the same.

 

[Unknown_K]

https://picasaweb.google.com/107784270771159898725/MiscComputerGear#5067910733476352930

It says WGS 95 on the back sticker if you have a real WGS95.

The motherboard should be the same as a 950 (don't have time to check now).

The WGS95 had the option for a 5 drive shelf (mine had it, moved it to another 950), the 9150 WGS had it as standard I think (PPC in aslightly modified 950 case).

 

[CelGen]

The WGS95 IS a Quadra 950 in every single way except different silkscreening/badging, the drive shelf, and the WGS card which I found is less useful than if you had a conventional ATTO SCSI card and a Daystar 040 PDS cache card installed.

 

[slomacuser]

Thanks for answers in meantime I managed to get it online with help from Scott from http://www.aux-penelope.com/

Here is the photostream: http://www.flickr.com/photos/57595490@N00/

Short article not in english: http://www.jabolko.org/mac/532-apple-workgroup-server-95

 

[olePigeon]

Very nice picture.

 

[Byrd]

... still looks powerful Did you retrobright your WGS?

 

[slomacuser]

I did not retrobrite it, probably was under the desk, only the reset and interrupt buttons did yellow anyway