Amiga OS4 on old (PPC) Macs

[niklasni1]

A 7600 is not going to have any networking servers running by default. The only FTP/HTTP servers were 3rd party, too.

It has got two serial ports (on mini-DIN socets), marked modem and printer. Both can be connected to PC serial ports (both 9 and 25 pin) with a simple mechanical adaptor.

But even if you got into OpenFirmware via serial, the only thing you would be able to do was boot it into MacOS 8.6 or whatever's on it and there's no way to interact with that over serial line.

Basically, no keyboard and monitor == useless Mac. It will boot up without a keyboard attached, though (no need to Press F1 to Resume), but you can do fuck all with it unless it's been configured first.

I might pay you for the RAM and G3 card, though..

[niklasni1]

Actually, someone with a mack might be able to put together a boot ISO for you with an FTP server on it which you could burn.

You'd need to access the firmware (or a keyboard) to boot from the CD, though..

[niklasni1]

bloodline wrote:
You can buy the CPU card new from Sonnet for $50 (http://store1.sonnettech.com/product_info.php?cPath=22_32&products_id=44)  and I'm pretty sure the ram would cost more to send than you could pick up from you local junk store... :-/

Sonnet don't sell to Europe from their site.

The RAM is actually a special type (5v 168 pin, as opposed to the 3.3v 168 pin which was used in PCs at the time) and, whilst not exactly 'rare' is not quite /that/ common either... Depending on how many chips makes up your 256MB set and how easy it would be to get money to you, I might actually be genuinely interested.