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Hi Neil I'll mail my brother and see if he's still interested. Keith On Thursday 24 Apr 2003 6:16 pm, Neil Williams wrote: > On Wednesday 02 April 2003 2:23 pm, Keith Abraham wrote: > > My brother is looking for a Umax Starmax 3000 computer. > > It may yet return to the 'for sale' list - I'm not having much joy with it. > > It doesn't want to play with the network card and (horror of horrors) I > can't seem to get Linux running on it. (Haven't got a lot of time to spend > on it either). Andrew did mention he recompiled the kernel to get the > network card working under Linux PPC (the CD is dated 1999 so it's not > going to be KDE3!!) but I was hoping to experiment with it as a Mac on the > home network. The card shows a good connection but the driver doesn't seem > to operate. If I had more time, I'm sure I'd get Linux running on it but > that wasn't really why I wanted to play with a cheap Mac - I wanted to get > it on the network as a Mac. > > There's no monitor with it (Andrew may still have the spare monitor that he > originally offered for sale with the StarMax) and I'm afraid I was a bit > unlucky with the Mac keyboard cable - it works fine with a PS/2 keyboard > and mouse but the original Mac keyboard will need a replacement cable > (which I keep forgetting to arrange to collect from Andrew). > > 30quid to a good home. (Manuals, Mac OS7, various other Mac CD-ROM's, > increased RAM (now 96Mb) CD-writer and CD-ROM, Linux CD's). Will need an > external modem to get online. Network card will remain installed just in > case. Mac keyboard and Mac mouse included - new cable required. > > > He seems to remember that someone in the group was > > offering one for sale. This was some time ago and whoever > > was offering it has probably sold/dumped it. If not could > > they post a reply to this mail and he'll contact you. > > > > Keith -- SuSE 8.0 Linux on 1.2GHz AMD Athlon/PCChips 810LMR\nwith 384MB RAM and 20GB Maxtor HD using KDE's Kmail -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.