Re: Looking to buy old 68k Mac in Nova Scotia

2005-04-06 Thread Michael D. Crawford
Someone suggested I look on eBay. Searching for "macintosh classic" or "macintosh se" turns up several with prices ranging from $20 to $40. For $100 you can get one with lots of extras like an imagewriter printer and a bunch of installed software. However, shipping from the US to Canada will d

Looking to buy old 68k Mac in Nova Scotia

2005-04-06 Thread Michael D. Crawford
I have this crazy idea of porting uCLinux to the 68000-based Macs. Regular Linux won't run on such old hardware because they don't have memory management hardware, but uCLinux is among other things a patch that removes the need for an MMU from the linux kernel. (It also removes memory protectio