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He was willing to sell the card at $50, a lot cheaper than the competition, I paid $30.80 to get it shipped to the UK and it's now humming along beautifully.

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I found a person on eBay who has a stock of over 30 sets of 200Mhz Upgrade Cards for the Apple Network Server available. My Ans is now running with even more juice. I've also done some overdue housekeeping on this site, removing broken links etc. If you are interested in a list please email him. It's RAM maxed out and a few extra drive connectors thanks to him. Steven Milos is decommissioning a number of ANS servers. I did not finally manage to recreate the installation until late 1998 after Aaron deMello postedĬlearer instructions for more stupid people like myself.

#Aix emulator for mac how to#

Let the world know that they had cracked it and posted their rather crude instructions on how to do so on the linux ppc web site. I gave up and the ans became a coffee table until July 1998 when Nick Sklavounakis and Fred Gildred I pressed on recompiling endless kernels on my 8600, pestering everyone i could for information, but i simply could not crack the scsi side of This was extremely difficult asĪt the time nobody else had made public any instructions or how to do such a thing though the linux ppc faqomatic claimed it could be done.

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My advice would be to wait for the Linux PPC port of Sheep Shaver, the excellent mac os emulator.Īfter cursing at AIX a lot i decided to install linux ppc on my box. This really removes the motivation from running I have had other reports that fitting theĪti card from the 9500 will then add video to the ans but only the external scsi is supported. Swap will boot to a certain extent but since the video is different from the 9500 it dies at that point. From what i can gather an ans with said rom I have had several people try differing ROMS in their Apple Network Servers with varying results. The 9500 is the most similar mac to the Apple Network Server however the device trees still have many differences. Rumor had it that any of the Apple Network Servers can be made to run MacOS by installing a ROM SIMM from a

Scsi chipset (Symbios Logic - Formerly NCR - 53c825a) which had previously never been used by Apple in any hardware. The only slightly non standard thing about them was their fast wide MacOS, even though there is no real reason why they shouldn't. To make matters worse Apple Network Servers have ROMS programmed specifically not to run AIX 4.1.5.Īfter that I believe that IBM dropped support. The machines shipped with AIX 4.1.4 and from what i can tell this can be upgraded all the way up to. Unfortunate because it was an excellent machine but fortunate for me as it meant that i got one free! The machines wereĭiscontinued for the reason that they weren't selling, and they didn't sell (in my humble opinion) becuase they were only really advertised to Mac Users,Īnd many mac users are scared of command lines, after all that's the reason that most bought macs in the first place. The Apple Network Server (codenamed 'Shiner') was introduced in February 1996 and discontinued almost immediately. Unfortunately i was given zero documentation, just the server, a power cable, the keys, and theĪIX 4.1.4 CD. In 1997 i was lucky enough to be given my very own Apple Network Server 500/132 to play with.

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