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The Apple Network Server MacOS ROMs have resurfaced (powermac aix macos powerpc) (oldvcr.blogspot.com | ia)

8 points by classichasclass 18 days ago | 6 comments

barbeque 18 days ago
Do you know what connector that ROM card uses (any makers' marks?) This would be a fun project to throw some hours at.
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- classichasclass 18 days ago
  Not yet. That's another part being worked on, and then we'd need to figure out some way to flash it like the 68K ROM programmers.
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  - barbeque 18 days ago
    I had a friend yank it out of his ANS (sounds crude, but...) and it looks like it might just be an edge connector.
    If you're willing to go with socketed DIP EPROMs you burn on a TL866 or something like that instead of a fancy in-system-programming thing we could probably make our own.
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bmonkey325 18 days ago
Asking for a friend. Does macOS here mean classic Mac OS or osx/macos ?
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- Screwtapello 18 days ago
  The Apple Network Server in question was made before Jobs returned to Apple and brought OS X with him, so it means classic Mac OS.
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- classichasclass 18 days ago
  Classic Mac OS. It will run up to Mac OS 9.
  XPostFacto might be able to drag it over the finish line, but I suspect there will be a driver problem. No way to know until we can get a system up with these ROMs, of course.
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