18 Jun
2003
18 Jun
'03
4:07 a.m.
In my opinion the LC 475 and Performa 630 are the best
coices for
a classic (68k) Mac. Both hafe the 32 Bit PDS slot, where you may
find network cards or even video cards. Beside that you may with
low effort design your own cards, since the PDS is nothing else
than a 68k bus, ment for machine specific add ons.
No offense, Hans, but I *HATE* the 630. :-P The case alone drives me up the
wall, and it's an IDE oddball (since I like classic Macs, I have tons of
SCSI drives in stock, but I rarely stock small-capacity IDE drives).
I do like the LC 475, but unless you have a real '040 installed (granted these
are not hard to find at decent prices), things like NetBSD might break or
give you much additional unnecessary grief. Ditto again for the (gag) 630.
My favourite all-around classic Mac is the venerable IIci. Three NuBus slots,
eight 30-pin SIMM slots (I have 128MB in my NetBSD IIci :-), runs MacOS,
Linux/68k and NetBSD/mac68k like a champ, dirt cheap, extremely easy to find,
cheap, easy to repair (power supply pops out too), stacks well, cleans up
nice, and very cheap.
Plus, you can find lots of accelerators and cards for them. My A/UX IIci has
a 8*24*GC and a Daystar 50MHz '030 + FPU in it (enough to play DOOM!).
Did I mention they were cheap?
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