The collected works of ClassicHasClass - Page 20

The Indy makes me think of the Mac LC, which is appropriate since both were each company's respective low end machines.

If you were lugging around monitors that heavy, how did anyone have any energy to deathmatch after that?

NOW WITH MORE AWESOME. Thanks to mopar5150, I had some time tonight to make THE SUPERFUEL. THE FUEL TO END ALL FUELS. A 900MHz PIMM and a V12 DCD.



Now, if I can just find that VFO to make it run at 1920x1080@60Hz again, this will be unstoppable.

Which model is that?

I'd still like to take a shot at 3.6, at least, but my time is being consumed by TenFourFox (which has higher priority) and my Master's degree (which the job insists I finish). Perhaps I shall do this around the time my marriage to Scarlett Johansson is nigh.

Details, details

On the other hand no harm in generating the patch now, since nothing's happening on the 1.9.2 branch. The real money would be getting Fx4 up. Fx5 will be troublesome, I suspect, because it requires libxul (no more static or separate component libraries).

You would not believe the amount of work getting it to still work on a Power Mac. And that's with the TenFourFox project being generally well regarded at Mozilla ...

Meanwhile, I have an acquaintance who can't fathom that I preferentially write unstyled plain text without CSS because I don't see the reason to sex up a page purely for informational purposes. "It loads fast enough on a modern Mac/PC, who cares?"

Let me verify: ANS = Apple Network Server?

I may have this floppy. I don't know in what condition, but I do have a boxed RAID card set.

No, he's obviously claiming to be a rocket scientist.

(scnr)

What ScutBoy said. It's just an HFS floppy.

If you have a Mac, we can get you Disk Copy format (I'm sure ScutBoy can too, since his disk is tested).

Yes, I'm having fun with it.

Finally sat down and executed the artwork. I did an AlphaPowered front badge (approximately 2"x0.78") with rounded corners, and decided to do an 11"x11" red right angle triangle with the Alpha cat as a case decal. I'm waiting for quotes from a couple printing bureaus I forwarded it to.

Meanwhile, the 164LX I bought as a "used kit" has been reassembled in a Nanoxia ATX case with an Antec PSU and I even got it a ZLXp-E3 video card (big freaking sucker with a bracket) so that there may be some hope of X11. Boots NetBSD like a champ. I'm trying to scare up a Tru64 4.0D CD so I can give that a try too.

I *am* looking for the rear ATX shield, though. The disassembled 164LX I bought didn't come with it.

The manual does have the exact measurements, so it should be possible. It's really irking me also, since the case is nice and quiet except for that.

I don't know if there were any graphic software for OSF/1 nee Tru64, but NetBSD seems to like the ZLXp. wscons flies on it: http://www.floodgap.com/iv/2547

I can't tell if it's the NT or the OpenVMS/DUNIX variant though. There's no marking on the card that would say (PBXGA-CA versus -CN).

Does OpenGenera run on the 164LX?

I totally should.

No idea, I'm just looking for interesting things to do with this new toy of mine.

Well, I've just joined the MacIvory party (Genera 8.3 pre-installed on a MacIvory 3 with 8MW). And by God I paid for it, too.

Any suggestions from the other MacIvory mafia for when this machine, which should be plated gold for that amount of cash, arrives? I'm going to immediately image the hard disk before I do anything else since I don't have install media.

IT BETTER WORK DAMN WELL OR I JUST PAID A SHETLOAD OF MONEY FOR A DOORSTOP.

There is indeed an FEP file system on a non-HFS partition ("FEP0") in the screenshot I have. However, I'll just be immediately plugging the drive into my NetBSD Q605 and dd'ing off /dev/sd0c, so that should get all the partitions plus the partition map. I imaged my NetBSD IIci the same way.

Incidentially, the same guy I bought this from appears to be dumping a whole bunch of fully configured Macs with various MacIvories (2s and 3s) on eBay. I count four, including the IIfx with a MacIvory 2 he just listed. The least expensive so far was $4K.

I was always interested in the TI MicroExplorer -- I had a book (which I can't find) I bought at R**** S**** on artificial intelligence that had a whole section on the TI Explorer. But I'll take the Ivory.

This seller seems to be accelerating his sales, though. I've had an eBay search active on MacIvories for the last year-ish and they've suddenly started coming out of the woodwork. A Q650 with a MI-2 from another seller sold for over $5K, though I suspect part of that was it came with a full set of CDs and manuals. I'm just happy that mine will come with the network already configured (I'll give it a LocalTalk drop for getting Mac stuff on it and let the Ivory keep control of the NIC).

The Jurassic World previews have no SGIs in them and therefore the movie will suck.

hamei wrote:

foetz wrote: we?

sybr is now part of a larger social unit

We're counting voices in the head now?

Let me introduce you to my five roommates.

Got an estimate back from the sticker shop and it's not going to be wildly expensive, even for the 11" side decal. I'm going to order a small run of that and some AlphaPowered badges and post pics. There will probably be a few spares which I will sell for slightly over cost+s/h if people are interested.

Made a deal on one which doesn't show a screen, but does appear to power up and "do stuff." I strongly suspect the machine is actually in working order, and it does have an external video out.

These are basically HP 9000/712 systems in a portable MIL-SPEC case. Quite unusual. Pics when it arrives.

http://www.openpa.net/systems/saic_galaxy_1100.html

Sexy! Very similar to mine.

So I got my MacIvory 3 today, in a IIci.

It was DOA.

The second IIci I transplanted it into ... wouldn't start.

The third IIci I transplanted it into would start, but now won't shut down without unplugging it (yes, the rear button is not turned in -- the IIci that runs my AppleShare network is setup that way so it reboots after a power failure), and the rear button doesn't shut it down either. That's not acceptable for a KVM.

At least the Ivory card works, even if freaking nothing else does: http://www.floodgap.com/iv/2578

For $4500 for this, I'm pretty pissed.

That seems to be the going rate, and yeah, ouch. Gonna take a long time to restore that dent in my savings account.

I've always wanted one for years, mind you, but I don't think I'll ever be buying another. Right now I'm just trying to find another suitable host for this one that, you know, powers up and shuts down properly.

Well, thanks to foetz' expert advice, I do have a copy of Tru64 5.1 on the way for the AlphaPC, so I could run it, but I thought the OpenGenera license was some ungodly amount of money and I've already paid an ungodly amount of money for the MacIvory.

Well, that makes it even better (or in this case freaking worse). It's a revision C. What was the difference?

Yes, but what revision is it? (I was considering finding a Q700 until robespierre's post.)

Yes, I meant the revision of the MacIvory board. The sticker on my card says Rev C; the board rev reported by the Genera CDEV is 20.0 (not 20.1), serial 30302. So I'm going to assume this will not work in a Quadra.

So it came today, a bit banged up (the seller did mention this -- I don't think this was shipping damage). Unfortunately, it starts rapidly blinking the front LED, which the 9000/712 service manual implies is a bad CPU or CPU board. (There is no battery on the board. That wouldn't cause this, I should think?)

However, the mainboard looks like a regular 9000/712 (/60 or /80, not /100), so it should be possible to just transplant one in. Anyone getting rid of one? The external video out puts out a perfectly good signal, so I suspect that once the CPU board is replaced, it will "just work."

Here's a picture.
http://www.floodgap.com/iv/2580

I'll post one tonight. I used to have a login to plash.saic.com back in the day. We ran a MUD off it.

Here's the badge, just for vishy.

I'm going to gravedig this thread as a public service, since I don't see it mentioned here what Tru64 versions will work on the 164LX, and the answer is 4.0D through the end (my 164LX is now happily running 5.1B3 thanks to foetz' expert advice) with the SRM firmware. This machine has a ZLXp-E3 graphics card, a Qlogic SCSI board, a compatible DEC Tulip NIC and 512MB of RAM.

Gonna try pkgsrc when I get back from being bored at Berkeley (hi, smj!).

I will say (as you pointed out) that the licensing sucks, and it looks like there isn't a hobbyist license program anymore. I'm working around it by using Dropbear instead, though I can still only login as root on the console, which is a drag.

pentium wrote: Because I had the NeXT mono slab out last night I thought why the hell not and tried to DD the bad disk form there. It mounted as an HFS volume.
Curiously I threw it into a spare powerbook and tried tackling the disk with Disk Image. It worked. Now I have two good copies of the disk.

So today I've learned that the configuration disk was in fact an HFS volume which I know from past experience is not really compatible with rawread.

Eh? Why would it not be compatible with rawread? It's just MFM sectors ...

I could understand a Mac 400K/800K disk not being compatible, but the ANS RAID floppy is a "regular" HD floppy.

Ah yes, I remember this when I was over last. Worked perfectly.