[MacTUG] Quadra 800 - system 7.1. Need MacTCP on 800k floppy

[Jim Tremain]

Thanks Paul,

   This will be great.  Which SCSI connector does this have?


Jim
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   Jim Tremain, B2 Rm 147B            Phone: (519) 885-1211 ext. 36420
   Biology, Univ. of Waterloo         EMAIL: jim at sciborg.uwaterloo.ca
   Waterloo, ON, CANADA
   N2L 3G1

On Thu, 10 Apr 2008, Paul Henderson wrote:

> I have some ancient Mac software on an external hard disk (SCSI), which I 
> could let you borrow.  I think it has all of the stuff you need.  It may even 
> have Mac system software back to v6.x.  I used to have MacTCP on a floppy, 
> but I think I discarded all of my old floppies.
> Paul
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> Paul Henderson, 519-888-4567 x32680
> Information Systems and Technology, University of Waterloo
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>
>
> Jim Tremain wrote:
>> We have an old Quadra 800 that runs system 7.1 and controls an Electron 
>> Microscope.  The hard disk died and a used one was purchased via EBay. 
>> System 7.1 and micrscope software run fine, but he is unable to transfer 
>> data as ethernet is not working.  Remember the days when networking was not 
>> part of the system.
>> 
>> I need to install the MacTCP extention on this machine.  I believe that 
>> these old Mac's had the 800Kb Mac variable speed floppy drives, so it may 
>> have to be in that format.  I will also have to install, from floppy, an 
>> ftp client.  Please include Fetch 4.0.3 as well.  After that I should be 
>> able to download any other software needed.  Please note that Fetch 4.0.3 
>> is still available on the web.
>> 
>> I'm not sure if this matters but the ethernet is an old Asante FriendlyNet 
>> external adapter that connects via that odd Mac only port (I faintly 
>> remember the name Geo Port, or World Port, it may be one of those). 
>> Hopefully no special software will be required for these.
>> 
>> Thanks
>> Jim
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>>    Jim Tremain, B2 Rm 147B            Phone: (519) 885-1211 ext. 36420
>>    Biology, Univ. of Waterloo         EMAIL: jim at sciborg.uwaterloo.ca
>>    Waterloo, ON, CANADA
>>    N2L 3G1
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