Reviving an old computer is like restoring a classic car: There’s a thrill from bringing the ancient into the modern world. So it was with my first “real” computer, my Mac Plus, when I decided to bring it forward three decades and introduce it to the modern Web.
Exactly what you expect. Great story.
pre-read — I have done this!!
It was about 2002 last time I did it but I had my mac classic on the net. I’m off to read the story…
Ha ha, I would love to hear your story too. That’s cool.
Also, I am as impressed as the author was at the friend who put together a solution to MacWeb’s limitations using various components in less than an hour. Wow!
I really don’t remember the details, I didn’t write any of it down. My classic has a zip drive and an external hard drive, along with the 4mb jumper upgrade. Also a not so well-done custom black paint job.
I think I maybe telnetted into something, I don’t think I got on the web. I might have been using the PPP control panel and I didn’t have any external hardware like the Pi.
Damn I just don’t remember. Might even be imagining actually getting online with it at this point, that was millions of years ago. I know it still works, so does my duo 230 from 1992, great laptop, still one of their finest.
I am not surprised it renders pages slowly.
This comment section has about 1K of text and maybe 5-10K formatting markup, but the ads (I don’t use ad-blocker) take over 200K.
Edited 2015-03-23 23:11 UTC
Sorry to pedant, but this is a repost of an article from 2013;
http://www.keacher.com/1216/how-i-introduced-a-27-year-old-computer…
Posted to a new site by the same author.
jester1o1,
I read this before too, and I even thought that I read it on osnews for that matter. Must not have been, maybe it was posted in the comments at some point?
In searching for above article on duck duck go, somehow an old english paper of Thom’s came up, in which he discusses the differences between a micro and monolithic kernel.
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=osnews.com+putting+a+mac+plus+on+the+inter…
http://www.osnews.com/files/17537/kernel_designs_explained.pdf
I read this out of curiosity. I must say Thom, I’m impressed that you managed to bring up a “male ass” analogy in a paper about operating system kernels, and I think you should use this analogy more often!
For instance, you could have used it in this recent osnews article:
Edited 2015-03-24 03:29 UTC
Even simpler… type “27 year” in to the advanced search bar above…. top hit, same article from Daily Dot, posted 2013:
http://www.osnews.com/story/27468/How_I_introduced_a_27-year-old_co…
Edited 2015-03-24 11:45 UTC
and supposedly Thom remembers all stories posted…
Right, I thought I was going crazy having a gigantic deja-vu. Thanks for making me believe I’m sane again
for real fun try connecting an apple ][ to an internet gateway via minitel 1200 down, 75 up bits/s