Dr. Sacco:
Joseph E. Sacco, Ph.D. wrote:
Older hardware is a challenge and an amusement [:-)]...
Too much so! (As I think wistfully of the "museum" I am accumulating at home...)
One of my favorite toys an old Nubus PPC-6100/60AV with a NewerTech 240/160 MHz PDS G3 card, an 18GB SCSI drive, and a womping 264MB of RAM. This box runs YDL-3.0.1, albeit slowly:
Tell us more: how well does Yellow Dog Linux support the PDS card? I have at work such a machine with (I believe) the exact same PDS-slotted G3 card. In Mac OS 7.x, the card requires a low-level init/Control Panel to function. I was not able to get it to function in Mac OS 9.x, thus killing its efficacy as a Retrospect Backup server (the upgrade to Retrospect that supported Mac OS X backups required Mac OS 9 or higher for the server). Rather than send this machine to our Surplus Department, I would love to keep it in service running something.
Best wishes, Clint
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