[SunRescue] Re: need Mac parts!

[Cyrus M. Reed]

All Mac's that have the SuperDrive can read PC formatted disks.  The
only Macs that don't have this are early machines in the II series and
the SE (and even some of these were upgraded later to include the 1.44M
SuperDrive).  You need "PC Exchange" control panel though IIRC (the
"Macintosh Easy Open" control panel might come in handy too, but I don't
think it's required).  If the Mac doesn't have it, I think it's
downloadable as a separate file from ftp.apple.com in the "Apple Support
Area".  If not, it's included in the system software which you can get
from the same place (up to v7.5.5 last time I checked).  Of course
getting it to the Mac could be difficult if it can't read PC disks in
the first place....  In that case the "netatalk" package works well as
an AppleShare fileserver since the machine has network access.  I know
netatalk is avalible for Linux, but I don't know about other OSes.

-Cyrus

P.S.  The Quadra 840AV takes up to 2MB VRAM (1MB standard, expandable
with 256k VRAM SIMMs), which should be enough for "thousands of colors"
at 800x600 or 832x624.  Above that, you'd probably want an add in card.

> > -----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... ?