[H-GEN] mac stuff

David de Groot david-humbug at viking.org.au
Tue Apr 20 21:56:52 EDT 2004


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).

It's ADB  (Apple Desktop Bus).  You should be able to grab one from 
eBay, or a swap meet.

>
> 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.
>

Well I've had success with NetBSD on an older Mac (Mac IIcx  or 
something)

> 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).
>

Nah, I'm fairly sure that's a Motorolla 680x0 based machine, no PPC 
stuff will work on it.

Dave





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