Check out MachTen for the 1400

Article:		Penny-Pinching PowerBook
Subject:		Check out MachTen for the 1400
Date:		2003-07-23 07:42:09
From:		MSchienle

Entertaining story and not unlike my attempts to get an old 7500 to run MacOS X the last few weeks. More on that in a moment. Grab Tenon's MachTen for $99 if you want to run UNIX on your 1400. I used it for several years, from about 1993 to 2000, with a few years on a 1400. The 1400 started out life with a 117 MHz 603, then moved up to a 250 MHz G3 and 64 MB RAM. MachTen ran just fine on the 1400 and is a painless install. For the 7500 (G3/350 and 448 MB RAM), my goal was to get Retrospect loaded on it and back up a PowerBook and iMac on the local airport network and a co-located iMac web server over internet. After a week or so of working with XPostFacto and trying 10.2 without success, I tried 10.1 and got it working. Unfortunately, I never got it to run a complete backup of itself to a pair of Exabyte 8700 8mm tapes without Retrospect complaining somewhere along the way. I'm going to look at getting an older B/W G3 with a SCSI card and see if I have better luck.

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Passed along the 7500
2003-07-29 07:12:30 MSchienle [Reply | View]

It feels like I lost an old friend, but I took the 7500 mentioned above to Goodwill over the weekend. It was a great workhorse in its time, performing a ton of image processing and file-serving duties for several years as the cornerstone of a small business, running as a co-located web server with the original MacOS X Server (1.0 before the the 10.x series), and handling a couple hundred backup-tapes of data. I hope someone has a chance to make a lot of use out of it.