Geek Rant #5 - Apple Quadra 700 and A/UX Tour

[@alexandermcalpine]

Oh man, best quadra video yet! Awesome, thanks for the great vids. I'd love to see it run Virtus Walk through

[@Shiunbird]

I haven't had the chance to run properly A/UX myself, but the documentation is indeed incredible, and a lot of the knowledge there is still current. A lot of the built-in UNIX utilities, even though they are still part of all distributions, are very archaic, but learning them gives a lot of base knowledge to understand how things work today, and I have a lot of fun exploring. So, really, fantastic machine and I hope you have a blast exploring it!

[@cyberdharma1020]

Can’t wait to get ahold of a quadra 700 and get A/UX up and running. Great video! Thanks for sharing!

[@Brad64url]

This is a very interesting project that you got going on. Would love to see a follow up on it. Also been trying to do something similar. But instead connecting my Mac Plus via serial to a linux machine host.

[@AsifAlli]

10:42 the A/UX terminal was not the granddaddy of the terminal in OSX. OSX kernel is Mach. A/UX was something. They’re different kernels so the terminals are also different. Hence not related

[@a4e69636b]

Wish I had one of these back in the day.

[@insanelydigitalvids]

Fascinating.

[@drnubus4613]

I remember reading somewhere that you cannot upgrade A/UX's built-in System 7 past 7.0x as it will break Mac-unix hybrid apps. I do remember them saying that you can however copy over system extensions from newer Systems, like windowshade. For a while I've been curious if the Appearance Manager would work.

[@TrackZeroFutzin]

Yeah, I threw 8.0 on there a while back and bricked A/UX which is a bummer I haven't been willing to get back to

[@VK2FVAX]

I like that there's other people out there like me connecting their VAXen and -11's to other old systems :) Good on you.

[@TrackZeroFutzin]

My life is based around three fundamental pillars: 1) The love of my wife 2) The love of my family 3) Connecting things to things

[@VK2FVAX]

@@TrackZeroFutzin I enthusiastically agree with your priorities. :) For me, 3) is restoring old things and finding modern uses for them. Often this involves connecting things to things.

[@yorgle]

in your shell, before running twm, xeyes, etc, you could do: # export DISPLAY=:0.0 and it should be available in that shell for anything else you run. (you can omit 127.0.0.1 before the colon)

[@TrackZeroFutzin]

I'm a control freak, though. What if the bits decide they want to fly off to check out some other piece of equipment? You've gotta put them in their place.

[@VK2FVAX]

Yep, but it may be an older shell. You may need to do a: "$ DISPLAY=:0.0; export DISPLAY"

[@stephensalex]

I'd like to recommend the OpenGear IM7200 if you were after a good serial terminal server.

[@TheShukins]

The dec cable connector is called a mmj

[@yorgle]

It's a IIci rotated 90 degrees. ;)

[@ultraswank]

This is super cool :)

[@KamiKitsuneVA]

I miss my Quadra 700, it was almost maxed out too :(

[@tenminutetokyo2643]

My 2nd computer at work.