> > By the way, total cost was $0.00 ;-) (Well, I did have to buy an ADB
> > mouse for the Mac, which was missing too. $40?! Highway robbery. But
> > I shan't complain too much :-)
>
>Ouch, you should have shopped around!
Yeah, no kidding. The local university here has been disposing of
old Mac stuff like you wouldn't believe. I came across a pile of
LCIIs at the surplus store for $5 each and every one of them has
enough RAM to run NetBSD as well as an Ethernet card. They also had
a big box of ADB keyboards and mice for $5 each. Needless to say, I
spent more money than I intended to (2 ea keyboard and mouse, an LCII
with 10M RAM, and an LCIII ($15) with 20M RAM).
While there are Apple knowledgeable folks paying attention, I also
recently picked up a PowerBook 145. It's a really, really nice machine
even though it doesn't have much RAM (4MB) or hard disk (40MB). I'm
running 7.0.1 on it (7.5.3 used too much of both the RAM and the
hard disk) and have been pleasantly surprised to find lots of software
that runs on 7.0.1 (vi and lynx alone mean I can be productive doing
documentation for some of my projects. Minix runs great, too), but I'd
really like to stick a larger hard disk in the beast. The difficulty
is that it uses a whacky 30 pin connector. Any hope of my finding a
larger hard disk that'll work? I've not been an Apple person until
recently so I don't know what was available for these machines. I have
found a company that sells NiMH batteries for the beast, which will
really help.
--
Roger Ivie
rivie_at_teraglobal.com
Not speaking for TeraGlobal Communications Corporation
Received on Sat Jun 10 2000 - 00:24:42 BST