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Quadra 7100
Posted by: Trash80toHP_Mini on 2013-02-27 08:37:34 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 . . . [😉] ]'> . . . 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.
Posted by: resx on 2013-02-27 09:31:59 Nice adjustable feets.
Posted by: uniserver on 2013-02-27 12:48:44 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?
Posted by: Trash80toHP_Mini on 2013-02-27 20:16:31 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?
Posted by: MinerAl on 2013-03-01 13:59:32 Nupe.
Posted by: tecneeq on 2013-03-01 15:34:08 Add NetBSD into the mix and you have up to date software on awesome hardware in a nifty case. I would buy that. ;D
Posted by: Trash80toHP_Mini on 2013-03-01 19:10:26 NetBSD on the 7100/G-3 or a Quadra 650 transplant? Nice adjustable feets. Thanks! 😉 MiniQuadraFeetsMac™ thread in Hacks.
Posted by: Bunsen on 2013-03-02 02:36:46 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.
Posted by: tecneeq on 2013-03-02 05:36:49 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
Posted by: ClassicHasClass on 2013-03-02 08:47:58 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.
Posted by: MinerAl on 2013-03-02 20:45:52 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...
Posted by: Trash80toHP_Mini on 2018-06-18 13:45:21 Recovery test post.
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