Or perhaps as a basic email client (I had an old university lecturer using a probably similar-vintage DOS PC for this purpose).Love to get my hands on one of these old machines, instead of just reading about them. Some ingenuity there getting the Python script to handle all the stuff the vintage machine and software was unable to do.Īnd I am surprised that software runs on such an early model (granted it isn’t the original 128k or 512k Macs, mind, and I’m pretty sure there’s been some upgrading going on there.)I wonder if the old Mac could at least handle Wikipedia? It seems to be something that is designed to try and work on old slow browsers. Though with the latter machine it does almost seem to be a “because we can” exercise, as for all practical intents and purposes one might as well just use the latter machine. Well this is quite interesting, especially given it’s not just using the Mac Plus as a remote terminal for the Raspberry Pi. But I’m hoping that a good cleaning of the analog board will let it boot again. I suspect that the monitor needs to be resoldered. Currently it starts up and has a thin vertical white line down the center of the screen. But I am going to try to fix it using it’s original hardware first. If the computer is not salvageable (but I think it is), I am just going to gut it and figure out how to put a Raspberry Pi in it and still use the Apple Keyboard (M0116) and the Basilisk II emulator. This little computer means a lot to me as it was the first computer I ever used. (Never used it on the SE, just a Quadra 650 and an SE/30.). There were also a couple X11 clients for the classic Mac, but I don’t know what the performance will be like on a 4 meg Plus. (Or you can make a Flickr / Tumblr client!) Also, install NCSA Telnet on the Plus and you should be able to get to the Pi’s console from there. The serial port on the Plus should handle 9600 baud at leastInstall ImageMagick on the Pi and use it to convert images to 1-bit GIFs! MacWeb won’t render inline images on the Plus, but NCSA Mosaic should. Yeah, the old browsers crap themselves when you ask them to do CSS, but I don’t remember it being anywhere near this slow. I had my Mac SE (basically a Plus with a better SCSI chip and an expansion slot) on the web a couple years ago. It isn’t fast by any means – in the video below, it takes about five minutes to pull up the front page of Hacker News – but it is a 27-year-old computer on the Internet.Posted in, Tagged, Post navigation. To fix this issue, Jeff’s friend Tyler came up with a Python script using Requests, Beautiful Soup, and Flask to strip out all the Web 2.0 cruft, handle the cookies, and to get rid of SSL.The end result is a Mac Plus with 4 Megabytes of RAM on the Internet, able to pull up Wikipedia and Hacker News. This means modern websites (except, of course, the ) simply won’t render properly. HTTPS hadn’t been invented until 1994, cookies are just a pain, and CSS is right out. The Pi does the heavy lifting, and a handful of serial adapters and voltage converters turns the Pi into something that can talk to the Plus’ serial port.Even with the MacTCP stack and the MacWeb browser, there are still some things this ancient computer couldn’t do. Lacking either of those pieces of hardware, Jeff decided to use a Raspberry Pi. For a somewhat slower connections, a PowerPC mac can be used as an Ethernet to Localtalk (the Macintosh serial port networking protocol) bridge. The best, but most expensive, is a SCSI to Ethernet computer. It was his first ‘real’ computer, and like those guys that take Model A Fords out for a Sunday drive,A Plus has a few options to get on the Internet. Jeff has a Mac Plus, an 8 MHz computer with 4 MB of RAM and a 512×342 1-bit screen. The problem is though, this was limited to a maximum of 4096 VLANs in. With Q-in-Q, the customer was able to insert a second Q tag of his own into the Ethernet frame for VLAN designation. This was introduced to improve scalability over the previous standard IEEE 802.1ad (or Q-in-Q). Mac-in-Mac is also referred to as Provider Backbone Bridges.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |