[H-GEN] mac stuff

[Johann Kwiatkowski]

Hi Sandra,
		I should have one you can have, have to check when I get home.  The 
mouse is a serial connection (RS 232 I think as well).  I have also run 
yellowdog linux on 7200's, but they are powerpc, you may need the mk64 
based distros, but there is stuff out there. My brother has put some 
version of bsd onto a mac classic (or was it a SE30), but either way 
you can get something on there. Hmm, checking out the apple specs, it 
should also have a dos card and cpu in there (looks to be 486 or there 
abouts).

cheers

Johann

On 21/04/2004, at 11:27 AM, Sandra Milne wrote:

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> I just became the proud owner of a 2nd hand Mac LC630. Knowing very
> little about Macintosh hardware, I noticed that it came with a keyboard
> but no mouse. I did work out that the mouse will connect to the 
> keyboard
> but it's too old to be usb. It's some sort of round connector that 
> looks
> like ps/2 but isn't (not enough pins).
>
> I have no idea what software is on it, but I'm curious which
> distribution it would be able to take. Apparently the 250meg drive in 
> it
> is scsi, and from the searching I did it should be able to run MacOS8.1
> ... I shall eventually boot it to see if there is any OS on it.
>
> However, what I would like to know is if anyone knows where to get a
> mouse that will fit (or has one gratis or cheap) and also about where 
> to
> get software for it (assuming it won't run debian PPC or similar).
>
> thanks,
>
> Sandra.
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