[SunRescue] Re: [Packrats] [non-sun] need Mac parts!

[Gregory Leblanc]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bill Bradford [mailto:mrbill at mrbill.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2000 5:39 PM
> To: packrats at sunhelp.org; rescue at sunhelp.org
> Subject: [SunRescue] Re: [Packrats] [non-sun] need Mac parts!
> 
> 
> On Wed, Mar 29, 2000 at 07:20:14PM -0600, Bill Bradford wrote:
> > I just bought Amy a Quadra 840AV with monitor.  Got some questions:
> > 	4 72pin SIMM slots - parity or non-parity?  Anybody got some
> > 	cheap 16meggers they'll sell?
> > 	Has an AAUI ethernet interface on teh back, but I have 
> no AAUI to
> > 	10base-T adapters (or AAUI to normal AUI, for that matter, which
> > 	would also work).  I picked up an Asante ethernet card (NuBus) 
> > 	dated '91 or so, should this work in the box?  (the 840AV came
> > 	out in '93, discontinued '94).
> > 	Any suggestions on as-cheap-as-possible 24bit cards?
> > 	Anybody got MacOS 8.1 on CD-ROM they'll let go cheap?
> > Thanks. 8-)  
> > Bill
> 
> Ignore the ethernet question - the card went into slot 1, got 
> recognized by
> the OS, and now the box is up and on the net - but without 
> Internet software
> (ftp, netscape, anything) of any kind... arugh.  Maybe its 
> floppy drive can
> read PC disks that I can put stuff on... ?

If you've got the PC stuff installed, it can read FAT disks.  Just get some
FTP client on there, or a copy of Netscape2 (it fits on one floppy, IIRC),
and download updates from there.  On the RAM deal, pretty sure that MACs use
non-parity, but parity shouldn't hurt it, it should just ignore the extra
bits.
	Greg