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| A/UX running on SE/30 | |
| Posted by: sclements on 2019-11-09 17:28:35 Hi everyone! Long time lurker, first time poster. I hope this is the right place to brag about finally getting an SE/30 of mine in good working order, resurrected with help of @PotatoFi, and running A/UX! It was a gift to me from a high school buddy. Several years back I learned about leaking batteries and caps and after a few cross country packages and some judicious parts swapping from donor machines, it appears that my long awaited "perfect" A/UX machine is up and running! It's sporting the factory spinning drive, 128M of RAM, an ethernet adapter (which works!) and a BMOW 32bit clean ROM. Seemingly A/UX can address all of the memory using the ROM. I'm still getting A/UX install boot failures (I installed it on the factory ROM), but it seems that when you swap out the ROM post-installation, it boots and operates just fine! Now once my clear case comes in for it, I'll swap in an SCSI2SD adapter and industrial SD card and re-build it again for my perfect dream machine! Pics attached. I hope someone enjoys this half as much as I do. š Keyboard and mouse will eventually be vintage correct, but it appears the machine is pretty dang functional at this point!    | |
| Posted by: PotatoFi on 2019-11-09 19:13:34 This is awesome. I'm looking forward to you getting your case from @maceffects, and installing the SCSI2SD. An SE/30 with 128mb of RAM, a twisted-pair ethernet adapter, BMOW 32-bit clean ROM, SCSI2SD, SCSI CD-ROM (you have that too, right?), A/UX, and a clear case sounds like the ultimate SE/30 to me. Where did you go to find all of the A/UX how-to? | |
| Posted by: sclements on 2019-11-09 19:23:41 Thanks @PotatoFi! An external CD-ROM is of course a must have for the build. š Ā I went to theĀ definitiveĀ A/UX resource on the internets: http://www.aux-penelope.com I had to make a couple ofĀ inferences and assumptions (especially around memory management and the BMOW ROM), but by and large, it was pretty straightforward if you've got a little bit of UNIX know how. Ā Ā -Sam | |
| Posted by: maceffects on 2019-11-09 20:17:24 Great looking machine!Ā Glad to see she is up and running.Ā | |
Posted by: netfreak on 2019-11-09 21:34:37Thanks @PotatoFi! An external CD-ROM is of course a must have for the build. š Ā I went to theĀ definitiveĀ A/UX resource on the internets:I also made this one based on my experience:Ā https://wiki.preterhuman.net/Newbie_Guide_To_A/UX_(Apple_UNIX) | |
| Posted by: sclements on 2019-11-10 06:17:25 Thanks for the link @netfreak- good looking guide, it will come in handy! Ā -Sam | |
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