A mountain of old Macs

CalHerrmann cal at herrmanns.org
Thu Jan 18 08:57:48 PST 2001


The hard drives were small, but easy to change.  The old ones 
probably need the CMOS battery replaced.
Cal Herrmann

>The old Macintoshes used SCSI hardware, as well.  Maybe you could RAID a
>half dozen drives together and get some reasonable access times.  Dunno how
>big the drives in those LC's are..
>
>As for running Linux on one, be prepared for some bugs.  I haven't tried
>Debian on the 68k processor..  I've tried mkLinux.  Quite a few commands
>were different for me.  But I wish you the best of luck! :)
>
>- Christopher Wagner
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Lincoln Peters [mailto:lincoln_peters at hotmail.com]
>Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2002 5:26 PM
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>Subject: A mountain of old Macs



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