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I had one with a 10baseT network card about 20 years ago. I ran NetBSD on it and punched a hole open so anyone could log in. I think I posted about it in the Ne

I had one with a 10baseT network card about 20 years ago. I ran NetBSD on it and punched a hole open so anyone could log in. I think I posted about it in the NetBSD IRC channel back in the EFNet days. You started up System 7 at first and then clicked on the launcher and it would reboot into NetBSD. This was like 1.something ... might have been 1.5? I had some external SCSI drives for it in the low GB range and I believe a CDRW. I think the ram was at 128MB (might have been 96) I had compiled Mozilla 0.9 or so for it (whatever was current) and it actually ran (compiling took I think 4 days because I compiled it on the SE/30). You could see the elements of the interface render to the screen in human time. I distinctly remember seeing each button come in to view and then slowly typed in "slashdot.org". I used it as an X terminal as well, using the -broadcast option to log into an HP-UX 10.20 machine. I ran sam and CDE on that tiny monochrome screen. So ridiculous. It was a glorious waste of time. Just looked in my old email archives --- this was indeed from 2002. Right, 20 years it is then.

deltarholamda 5y ago
Had one with the PDS Ethernet card as well. With Mode32 you could put in 128MB of RAM without swapping the ROM, or you could snitch a IIsi (IIRC) ROM and be 32-bit clean. I put NetBSD on mine as well, and used it as a mail server for a time. With a little jiggery-pokery of a Wifi AP you could even be wireless. Great machines.
classichasclass 5y ago
NetBSD/mac68k still boots that way. I have NetBSD on a IIci (128MB RAM, SCSI drive, Farallon Ethernet NuBus card). I use it for netatalk, and as an internal DNS, DHCP and printer server. Other than requiring a motherboard recap, it performs very well in this capacity. It's not fast, and I gimped it further by pulling the cache card (a source of instability), but it doesn't need to be.

deltarholamda 5y ago

Had one with the PDS Ethernet card as well. With Mode32 you could put in 128MB of RAM without swapping the ROM, or you could snitch a IIsi (IIRC) ROM and be 32-bit clean. I put NetBSD on mine as well, and used it as a mail server for a time. With a little jiggery-pokery of a Wifi AP you could even be wireless. Great machines.

classichasclass 5y ago

NetBSD/mac68k still boots that way. I have NetBSD on a IIci (128MB RAM, SCSI drive, Farallon Ethernet NuBus card). I use it for netatalk, and as an internal DNS, DHCP and printer server. Other than requiring a motherboard recap, it performs very well in this capacity. It's not fast, and I gimped it further by pulling the cache card (a source of instability), but it doesn't need to be.