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Originally Posted by Dewey  I am assuming that you guys are using a cable or broadband connection to host with? Will the ethernet connection on the back of my Quadra work with with a cable modem? How about my Power mac 7600?
Any body use this older machine as a work station to record music? I record my instuments with a digital recorder now I just want to experiment with it and a larger screen like a monitor would be an improvemnet over the small sreen on it. There is no way to hook a monitor to my digital recorder.
This is fun stuff especially for a tinker like me
Dewey |
I'm using the AAUI connector on the back of my Quadra 650 to connect to my network. The AAUI connector is using an AAUI-to-RJ45 Ethernet converter, and that can be purchased from the vendors highlighted on Low End Mac. You can also purchase Nubus Ethernet cards from those vendors if they sell them. Mind you, these will probably be no more than 10Mb/sec., but at least it works.
I've also used my Quadra with Master Tracks Pro 6.0, which is a MIDI sequencer software package. I haven't done any audio recording on it, mainly because I don't have a large enough hard drive. However, you could possibly put in a larger hard drive with the aforementioned adapters in previous posts. The only thing you would need is an serial-port-based MIDI interface if you want to do MIDI sequencing. Fortunately, you can still purchase some of those interfaces online or you can build your own from schematics found on the Internet.
Your 7600 is even better off because it uses standard PCI slots. All you need to make sure is that you find one that supports Mac OS 9 or earlier. If you plan to put Linux/ppc on it, then practically any PCI network card that the vanilla Linux kernel supports would also be supported. However, you then would not be running Mac OS.
