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

[Paul Khoury]

On Wed, 29 Mar 2000 22:27:28 -0600, Bill Bradford wrote:

>On Wed, Mar 29, 2000 at 09:03:44PM -0500, Sam Creasey wrote:
>> On Wed, 29 Mar 2000, Bill Bradford wrote:
>> > 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... ?
>> People will tell you they can read PC disks.  I've not seen the other
>> 68k's do it personally....
>> In my brief toying with a centris 610 I fould the best strategy was taking
>> the extern disk to some other macs. :)
>> As a secondary solutions, next's will format/write mac floppies natively
>> if you've got one of those lying around... 
>> (and yes, a mac with no network software is a hell of a chicken and egg
>> problem...  a friend was once in the unfortunate positing of wanting to
>> upgrade drivers on an Image without a network connection.   seems burning
>> AFS cd's was the option...)
>
>We ended up going to CompUSA, buying a couple Mac magazines with CDs
>included, and getting Stuffit Expander and Anarchie off the CDs, then
>using that to download Netscape. 8-)
>
>(the NuBus ethernet card worked without a single problem, no drivers
>needed!)
>
>Bill (dammit, now I want a mac too...)
>
If anyone wants, I have some Macs I could let go.
One is a IIx, 8MB RAM, 80MB HD, a IIsi, 17MB RAM, 40MB HD, and maybe my Quadra 610,
which has I think 36MB of RAM, and either a 350 or 500MB HD.

Paul