Quickstep back up

Since quickstep's 9G SCSI hard disk broke out of heat in early summer of last year, it had been down. Christian sent me an 18G replacement hard disk back in October or so, but as that disk was SCA and quickstep requires 50pin SCSI, I needed an adapter. To keep long stories short, suffice to say that it took a while before that adapter arrived. It did last friday, so I installed it in quickstep on saturday, and started installing and configuring the thing, which has just been finished; it's now happily crunching away at packages in the experimental distribution.

I had pondered using the disk for jazz, a 33Mhz Quadra950 (which is 8Mhz faster than the 25 quickstep has); but as the Quadra only has 64Megs of RAM, and quickstep has 132Megs of them, I decided not to do that. And no, they're not compatible—jazz requires 32pin SIMMs, whereas a Centris 650 such as quickstep has 72pin SIMM slots. Using them both is not an option either, as I don't have another large enough SCSI hard disk, and I only have one RJ45 AAUI transceiver.

Too bad. I guess that will make jazz a nice demo box at FOSDEM and related events.