Quadra 7100

#1 Wed, 27 Feb 2013 - 16:37 68kMLA

This is a hack I did quite some time ago and, like almost all of my hacks, it has never quite been finished! :-/

I was going to post this after having welded and cleaned up the @$$graft, but another member is looking into doing a similar hack, so here goes:

This shot I'll revisit after completing the Quadra 7100/G3/HPV upgrade . . . [

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. . . adding a more appropriate selection of NuBus Cards . . .

. . . and maybe doing a little plastic welding. :

If I'd have had the same handful of NewerTech G-3 Accelerators/PDS Adapters and selection of larger collection of NuBus Cards that I've now laid my grubby little paws upon, I could have left the 700's Two Slot Tuschie section unmolested.

Such is life! ;D

p.s. sorry if this is a double post, I couldn't find it in the six pages of this current iteration of Hacks. I think I did this one about eight years ago.

#2 Wed, 27 Feb 2013 - 17:31 68kMLA

Nice adjustable feets.

#3 Wed, 27 Feb 2013 - 20:48 68kMLA

looks good!

I feel like a IIcx or IIci would have been a better choice to hack up.

But regardless your craftsmanship is pretty good, Have you ever preformed prototyping, for a company?

#4 Thu, 28 Feb 2013 - 04:16 68kMLA

Thanks. I've never prototyped any computer equipment for anyone, but I've done POP Display Prototyping for a few companies.

I hack what I've got extras of at any given time: 3 Q700s = three legged display shelf + 2 Hacks + 1 Stock Q700 + spare boards }

The other hacker will be likely be using a IIcx case.

Question: does putting a Q650 board into a Q700 require any hacking of the backplane?

#5 Fri, 1 Mar 2013 - 21:59 68kMLA

Nupe.

#6 Fri, 1 Mar 2013 - 23:34 68kMLA

Add NetBSD into the mix and you have up to date software on awesome hardware in a nifty case. I would buy that. ;D

#7 Sat, 2 Mar 2013 - 03:10 68kMLA

NetBSD on the 7100/G-3 or a Quadra 650 transplant?

Nice adjustable feets.

Thanks!

MiniQuadraFeetsMac™ thread in Hacks.

#8 Sat, 2 Mar 2013 - 10:36 68kMLA

Question: does putting a Q650 board into a Q700 require any hacking of the backplane?

As lone as your third Nubus slot doesn't need access to the outside world; there are only two rear Nubus openings on the 700.

#9 Sat, 2 Mar 2013 - 13:36 68kMLA

NetBSD on the 7100/G-3 or a Quadra 650 transplant?

Both, if possible. :approve:

I know it's working perfectly fine on a Q650 board. It seems the 7100 isn't amongst the supported machines:

http://www.netbsd.org/ports/macppc/models.html

#10 Sat, 2 Mar 2013 - 16:47 68kMLA

For the 7100, the only options are what few distros of LinuxPPC with NuBus support are out there, or MkLinux. I've long toyed with putting MkLinux on my 7100.

#11 Sun, 3 Mar 2013 - 04:45 68kMLA

Somewhere in the back of my closet I still have my Tux (the Linux penguin) sitting on a 7100 t-shirt I got with my box of MkLinux back in the day. Nerd girls loved that t-shirt. I wonder if I still have that box...