As per custom, according to the FAQ, I'd like to introduce myself and comment how encouraged I am to see an active forum frequented by people with penchant in 68K Macs. I thought I was alone, adrift in a sea of current technology, with only a few islands of support for my eccentric interests.After abandoning Apple in 1992, I was left with a large, expensive collection of software. For reasons unclear, I've once again become interested in these ancient products and I am reviving my old platforms to accomodate them.
I have resurrected my old SE/30, fitting it with a 50MHz DiiMo accelerator, 128 Meg RAM, Farallon network card and a 256 Meg drive.
I'm waiting for a IIfx ROM delivery, which I'm hoping will make the SE/30 32-bit clean. I have a Micron Xceed /30 video card that I'm planning to somehow add to the 2 existing cards inside.
I recently bought an LC630 with 36 Meg RAM to which I've added an Asante network card and replaced the CPU with a 68040. I plan to try to overclock the logic board to 40 Mhz and replace the internal IDE drive and CD drive with larger/faster units.
I've acquired about 8 or 9 external, server-grade, SCSI drives that provide these 2 machines with over 30 GBytes of storage. I use VNC to control these Macs from my Win2k workstation and, running Netpresenz FTP server on the Macs and Webdrive FTP client on the Win2K, I'm able to easily drag and drop files to and from the Macs and from the Windows machine. The Macs have Internet access through my home Internet gateway and I plan to create an Internet presence one day, using the Macs as servers.
I have plans for my MacPlus, too, but only after I get the others up to snuff.
I suppose once I'm bored with running Mac OS, I'll install Linux or NetBSD on these babies. But, until then, I'm having fun with this deadend hobby.
Introduction
Posted - 14 Oct 2002 : 19:26:59
68k of the Week: kastegir's PowerBook 180.