[ale] 'Vintage' Macintosh
Joe Jansen
joejansen at vei.net
Tue Apr 16 11:49:36 EDT 2002
Hey all!
I recently moved to Anderson SC from Milwaukee WI, and finally came across
your LUG! I am glad to have found someone, since Anderson seems devoid of
any group activity...
I have 2 old^H^H^HVintage Mac's: A Mac IIci and a Mac IIvx. The ci has a
bad floppy, but I can prob salvage the one from the vx. The vx has a caddy
style 2x cdrom.
Is anyone familiar with the m68k setup? I have done a PPC setup on a
PowerMAC before, and it required having a Mac OS cd to bless the new drive.
I have no such CD in this case. Am I 'up the river'?
The machines are running OS 7. I would really like to salvage the hdd from
the ci and drop it into the vx. Can I do this? I am _SO_ non-clueful when
it comes to mac stuff. I have done some work with x86 architecture with
Linux.
The vx has an ethernet card, and a add-on video card. 20MB RAM, cd, floppy,
and 250MB hdd. The ci has a 250MB hdd. I have an old 12" b&w monitor,
mouse, and 3rd party kb. The machines do both boot! <gasp>
the m68k website states that the hardware is both supported. Does anyone
have any experience working with this stuff? Maybe point me to some good
doc's, or drop me a line with some pointers? This is pretty much just
something to mess around with. I want to teach my kids some programming
(probably python), and would use one of the macs as either a second machine
or possibly just a terminal from my main linux box.
Any ideas or suggestions are extremely welcome. Hope to meet some of you at
an upcoming gathering!
Thanks!
--Joe Jansen
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