First of all, for what you will save on solar panels and batteries
(lots) I would spend the extra few bux and get a laptop. The power
consumption will be about a tenth of that of a desktop even without a
monitor.
There are 520s and 540s popping up on ebay au pretty regularly. I
don't know how you would go with netbsd on those machines, but i'm
sure at least one of the bsd flavours supports them. the nubus based
ppc powerbooks tend not to have good support, and the pci based ones
- the 3400 and up - are probably too expensive for what you are
looking at.
I'm working up to using my 1400 in a similar setup as a wireless
node, using OS 9.
Where are you located?
Clae.
>Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2002 19:52:05 -0800 (PST)
>From: Matthew Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Alternatively powered Macs
>
>
>On Monday, Oct 28, 2002, at 06:19AM, Clae <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>[...]
>>consultation: renewable energy, audio engineering and rigging, mac
>>systems support and supply
>
>Aha! Just the person I'm looking for?
>
>I've been keen on getting an alternately powered Mac (I was thinking
>solar) and having it running NetBSD to replace my IIci as my home
>firewall/router. I just don't really know where to start :-)
>
>My (limited) research has lead me to believe that a Quadra 660AV
>looks to be about the lowest power consuming of the 68K desktop Macs
>... so that would be my target. Of course it would run without a
>monitor ;)
>
>Does this interest anyone (hint: Clae) ??
>
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