On Friday, April 5, 2002, at 07:51 PM, Chris wrote:
> It's a Centris 610, with an 80MB hard drive, floppy, and an (as yet)
> unknown amount of RAM. The Apple specs pages tell me that it has a
> 64LC040 running at 20MHz. The label says it's model M1444 made in
> Ireland. There's a keyboard, but no monitor and abolutely no cables.
It's a Corker, no really, it was built in Cork ;). The keyboard cables
always get filched for other Macs as they work on anything, potentially
up to a B&W G3. Of course the power chord is a standard one :).
> I powered it up and it chimed, an LED lit up, and the hard disk made
> the right sort of noises.
Good sign. If you leave it for a while does it sound like it is loading
an OS?
> So I'd be very grateful for some more information.
>
> - What sort of monitor does it need? It has a DB-15 connector
> and (apparently) 2MB of SGRAM.
A Mac monitor with a DB-15 cable, I don't know if the 610 will support a
Multiscan. The alternative is that you can hang a PC SVGA monitor on it
using a DB-15 to HD-15 adapter with dip switches that emulate an Apple
monitor, that will work on any SVGA PC display AFAIK.
> - Where can I get hold of a keyboard cable and a mouse?
Mice are common on eBay or the LEM Swap list (take a look at the other
mailing lists on LowEndMac)
> - The spec says that the ethernet port is AAUI-15, as opposed to
> the 10/100baseT on my PowerBook. Will that make it difficult to link
> the two?
Nope, all you need is an AAUI->RJ45 tranciever, also easy to find on
eBay (you might have ot wait a few weeks for one to turn up) or the Swap
List. Then you just need a Cat5 crossover cable and you should be able
to connect the two via AppleTalk.
> Once I get it running, I can start playing with the software (I'm
> toying with the idea of trying Linux/mac68k).
Get used to an old version of Mac OS first, you can download OS 7.5.5
for free from <ftp.info.apple.com>.
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