A mountain of old Macs

[Warren Raquel]

If you want you could try OpenBSD on it. I know it supports mac68k.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Andrew" <argonaut at softhome.net>
To: <talk at nblug.org>
Sent: Saturday, January 26, 2002 9:37 AM
Subject: Re: A mountain of old Macs


> On Fri, 18 Jan 2002 15:53:02 -0800
> "Lincoln Peters" <lincoln_peters at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > I didn't have a chance to _really_ look at those Macs, so I'm
> not sure what
> > specific models they were.  I do have a Macintosh SE that I
> bought used for
> > $5, and I might experiment with it over the weekend.
> >
> > Of course, it's only got a 720K 3.5" floppy drive and not
> CD-ROM drive (the
> > same is true for all the computers in that pile).  Is there
> anything I need
> > to know about burning 720K floppy images if I only have 1.44MB
> disks and
> > drives to burn them with?
> 
> Sorry, Lincoln, if you've got an original SE, it has a 68000
> processor, which can't do Linux. But if it's an SE/30, you should
> be OK. That one has a 68030.
> 
> I've got an old Apple external SCSI CD-ROM drive that you can
> borrow if you want. It's probably only 2x, but it may save you
> from having to mess with 720k floppies.
> 
> You'll probably need to put System 7.5.5 on those old machines
> before playing around with Linux (or even if you aren't going to
> do Linux). Apple lets you download it for free from their
> Website.
> 
> A.
>