doing m68k again

I was browsing my old blog entries, and stumbled upon one from about half a year ago, where I talked about the two macs p2 had brought me. At the time, I didn't have enough spare time to give them some love; and afterwards, I had completely forgotten about those.

Made up for that just now.

The good part is, they both work as far as MuckOS. The IIci even has Penguin-16 installed, and a 2.2.0 kernel (or something). The bad part is, none of them actually runs GNU/Linux at the moment (the IIci just sits there after loading the kernel, the Quadra doesn't even have one), and what's worse, the Quadra doesn't even always boot. It boots some of the time, if it feels like it.

Once I receive the long-awaited SCA-SCSI adapter, I'm thinking of configuring this Quadra as an autobuilder instead of quickstep, my Centris 650. The Quadra is a hell of a lot faster, even if it has less RAM currently; but that's an issue we can deal with, I suspect...