Finally my very own A/UX 68K machine!

[avadondragon]

I have never had a 68040 machine compatible with A/UX in my collection.  About a month ago I got a couple Centris 610 machines with exploded capacitors.  I recapped them both but sadly one of the machines just had too much damage from the cap goo to come back to life.  It makes the sad mac chime when I try to power it up.

Last night I installed A/UX 3.0.1 on my working machine.  So exciting to finally check this one off my antique Mac bucket list.

 

[Elfen]

My two cents:

1) Don't throw out that other C610. You got it to turn on and Chimes of Death - so it's fixable. It just requires more work.

2 ) CONGRATS! Hope you enjoy it and do a lot with it!

 

[bse5150]

I had an A/UX 3.0.1 install on my Quadra 700 for all of about two weeks; my hard drive died.  A/UX is fun to play with but it sucks for doing anything productive.

At any rate, enjoy!

 

[rezwits]

I picked up an 800 that's on the way, and I am finally going to get back to A/UX, my last time was a 950 that I turned into a Workgroup Server 95 with an upgrade kit, back in 1994!  I left the company after setting things up, but I always wanted to play with that A/UX!  and I got tricked by Apple at the time.  Because I remember this so vividly...

The Quadra 800 had been out and I was looking for Spigot etc setup and then I heard and was told to wait for the 840 because the 840 going to be cheaper and include an Apple branded Video Capture and a Geoport etc.  I was like ok I can wait, well the 800 was like $5,000! and the 840 was $3,500!  I talked my friend and myself into getting a couple and we did.  We thought we scored and we kinda did, I had fun with my 840, lots of fun.  But that next year I was like we gotta get a better File Server setup for the 10 Classic IIs I setup for a medical transcription service.  I got the upgrade for the 950, and then was like I am going to get this to work on the 840, and long story short as we all know, that was a NO GO.

I always looked back and said damn, they tricked me kinda into this lower end machine that can't run the NEXT OS, but the rest is history!

Laters...

 

[rezwits]

How is the setup going?  I finally got mine installed, and copied a jagubox mirror RAR to my ftp on my Mac Pro Server, and I was off to the races!  I got gcc-2.6.3.tar.gz compiled & installed, and then compiled gcc-2.7.2.tar.gz.  I removed the .gz from the tars in my "personal mirror" because I wanted to compile gzip from gcc-2.7.2, that was easy just using StuffIt Deluxe on Mac OS X (10.11.3).

So, I ftp'd them to the machine and compiled.  I couldn't get gas-1.38.1 compiled, but I took the precompiled versions.  If you try to get gcc going so you can "work" or get something done, look for what version is compatible with your A/UX 3.x.x install.

This is a pretty great link also to get things started, http://christtrekker.users.sourceforge.net/doc/aux/faq.html#contrib

I've seen some posts of his on this site.

Feels good that it actually "works" like unix should especially when it comes to compiling.  I was leary at first wondering how many "other" packages I was going to have to necro-find (or raise from the dead) googling.  But it wasn't to bad to get A/UX going.

I just want to get ssh setup tonight.  That's the 100% MAIN GOAL!

ok good luck and

Laters...

 

[avadondragon]

Oh hey!  I put the project on hold for a while.  I was doing some compact Mac repairs for a friend who was interested in trading for the A/UX machine and I didn't want to get too invested in the thing if I was just going to trade it away immediately.  Then of course life happened and I never got back to it.

Here is a neat little archive of slightly newer software than what is on jagubox in case you haven't seen it:
http://www.nleymann.de/appleAUX/index.htm

I've just been telneting into my box since it isn't usually connected to the web.  The shell is SOOO primitive it hurts.  I forgot what hell life was before tab completion!

 

[rezwits]

That's cool, I gotta get command line history going!  That is killing me!

Night