A mountain of old Macs

Doug Palmer dpalmer at mahinetworks.com
Thu Jan 17 18:40:12 PST 2002


A while back I donated a trio of old Power Macs to the SSU computer club.
They started a cluster project with Beowulf, but I don't know how far it
got. Maybe you could try something similar. It sounds like a fun way to make
old slow stuff useful again.

Doug

-----Original Message-----
From: Lincoln Peters [mailto:lincoln_peters at hotmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2002 5:26 PM
To: talk at nblug.org
Subject: A mountain of old Macs


I just discovered that in the microscope lab at RCHS, there is a table at 
the edge of the room that is piled with old Macintosh LC's piled on it, as 
well as at least one Apple IIgs.  Nobody has been able to explain them, so 
I'm guessing that they got so outdated that they weren't very useful anymore

(?), but nobody knew what to do with them.  Now, everyone has either a Dell 
or a newer Macintosh (an iMac or a G3; I've heard rumors that someone has 
G4's, but I've never seen them), and I'm still looking for soemone who would

take Isildur (the donated Linux workstation).

I'm trying to think of something useful to do with them, and I remember that

Debian supports the m68k architecture.  Isn't that what the old Macintoshes 
use?  Has anyone ever tried running Linux on an old Macintosh?  I'm guessing

that if they could run Linux, they could do almost anything that a Linux 
system with similar Intel-based hardware could do.


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