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- turgiddahlia, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Good for him, not falling for all that ***** about needing to upgrade every five seconds like every other prickhead on the internet. Obviously he has more important things to worry about than bus speed and downloading the latest of the seventy-nine release candidates of Firefox 1.5. Bravo!
- Ducklake, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Now that's funny :)
I bet this guy's sitting on a fat wallet, the kind of person that never spends his money until he has to. - Charlotte_Web, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Mac Classics are simply too slow to support web browsers, with all of the graphics on web pages these days. You need a minimum of a 68040 CPU to have a passable experience, and the Classic only had a 68000 CPU. I suppose the Lynx browser would work ok (text only), though I've never used it myself.
No networking built in, other than LocalTalk (serial-to-serial), which is equivalent to a 28.8 bps modem. Again, WAY too slow for today's web pages.
Firefox won't work on there, because you can't run a Mac OS newer than 7.x, if I recall.
Eudora Email probably runs nicely on it (older versions, at least). I used to use a shareware program called Alice on my Classic (way back in the day).
Fortunately, every beige Mac since Day One had an external SCSI port; to get the old guy's data off, they just need to hook up an external SCSI-1 drive. Where you find a SCSI-1 drive nowadays, I'm not sure, though... - danielson, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Wait, what's cool about this? I used to work as a computer tech and people would bring in old ***** computers all the time looking to upgrade...
- sdquirk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1voisine, you could do dialup with an external modem via the phone port, if I remember right. Don't know of a browser that would have worked, I hope he wasn't using telnet only!
- yoshisushi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I talk to these guys all the time. They generally waste an hour of my time asking me why they have to upgrade to use software they paid *good* money for.
- Chris_F, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I bet he "upgraded" to a duel G5 with 4GB of ram. Well, that would be funny.
- krolls, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0did that in 8th grade, the fish tank thing... except I gave it to the computer teacher... and it ended up leaking... so one day she came in, and the floor of the lab was all wet.
- Lucid, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0They aren't quite old enough yet to be worth much on ebay. I have a couple sitting in my basement.
Says something about the quality of a Macintosh, though. - galfridus73, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Just remember, kirakun: 640k should be enough for anybody.
- omnithrope, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0You can pick these up at Goodwill in Austin TX for about $25... working.
No, not worth anything.
Most people buy them just to make fish tanks out of them. - camtech, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0i wonder if firefox works on there
- CLIFFosakaJAPAN, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0A great example of Mac's reputation for longevity.
- jafar, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Wow. Cool. Dugg.
- shawgo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Vonskippy! Are you blind?
(My best friend's sister's boyfriend's
brother's girlfriend heard from this
guy who knows this kid who's going
with a girl who saw Ferris pass-out
at 31 Flavors last night. I guess
it's pretty serious.) - mcpaige, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0works... worth some money on eBay??
- dpk87, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I got one in my basement. Booted it up about a year ago, works just fine still, and has some fun classic games on it. Mostly memories though.
- carcus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0i almost got one of these for a pretty neat sound application that was on it. then again my house is like a computer museum as it is.
- Koskun, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0My guess is a grandkid said he needed to upgrade without realizing what he had and upgrading is not an option.
Hey, if it worked for what he wanted more power to him. - powerbook86, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Nice, I just sold one of these machines. They are pretty snappy considering their age. I know they have some hard to find SCSI to ethernet adapters, check out eBay for them. That guy probably went home with Mac Mini or an iMac, or went home with nothing at all. Great Digg :)
- voisine, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Does that thing even have networking capability? Can it even read e-mail?
- sfx2000, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Could be an SE or an SE30, my guess is SE30... if it's an SE30, running 7.5 is an option, or better yet, running A/UX 3.0 :^)
I've still got an older toaster sitting in the garage, a Classic II, which I've been thinking about modding it with a small VGA LCD and an mini-ITX board. Only thing holding me back is that it does have a bit of history, in that I picked it up from the author of NotifyMail (Scott Gruby)...
For the person that noted the ethernet connection, I've got an old SCSI-Ethernet adapter, that allowed non-slotted Macs to get on ethernet, if I recall correctly, it was the DaynaPort-SC.
Another use for old toaster mac cases, the back housing works great as a 'bucket' - holding old misc parts sitting on the bookshelves. - barbobot, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I have an 8600/200 and a quadra 605 at home, the 8600/200 runs debian but the quadra still runs os 7.1
- galfridus73, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Of course it can read e-mail, voisine. It can also run Word (Word 5 ran nicely on those machines), Excel, and PowerPoint. And not to forget Bolo, which was one of the first true LAN games.
It has built-in networking capability, and two cheap LocalTalk connectors, another old Mac and a typical RJ-11 phone cord will give you a basic AppleTalk network. In the early 1990s I ran a lab with 30 SE series machines connected via LocalTalk connectors to one 10Mb line out of the lab. Also, the SE can handle Ethernet (with a third-party card like the one at http://www2.sunrem.com/sun01.w?pt=210-613 which has RJ-45 and AUI connectors). But it was an 8MHz machine with no hard drive.
An SE FDHD, which was the same thing but had a hard drive (20MB or 40MB) in it, would be better, but an SE/30, with a 40MB or 80MB hard drive and a 16 MHz 68030 chip and a maximum of 128MB of RAM would be the best one of the SE series to get a hold of.
That said: The SE/30 can run up to System 7.5.5, which Apple now gives away for free on their website. I doubt Netscape Navigator 3 can run on those machines, but Navigator 2 should be great (though, let's be honest, it wouldn't be very easy to find a site to surf to any longer) and digging out an old copy of Eudora Lite would easily allow you to read e-mail. Thankfully the lab I ran had SE/30s.
So, yes, it can do e-mail and network. - pdlevin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0if the story is true, more power to the guy who put up with the comp that long, but the pic looks prett PHOTOSHOP-ED to me
- theblackgecko, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Is there anyway to use the monitor and keyboard but put in a new motherboard / HD? That would be awesome to haul around.
- kirakun, on 10/12/2007, -0/+01MB mem only??? How the heck did people run *anything* on those things?
My alarm widget alone is 9+MB already. lol.
Amazing... - TK99, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Big Deal I have teacher in college who still uses and enjoys his Apple @ games and all.
- Harlequn, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0dang I never should have given my mac SE away! Of all the computers i ever owned, it was the only one that would have still been somewhat interesting today
- seriypshick, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0hilarious!
- a7bat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Well? What happened? Did he get a new one or was he pissed off? More details!
- vonskippy, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Yawn.... another dumbass Mac owner story. Does anyone (Anyone? Bueller? Anyone?) care?
- CaptSnuffy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Make no mistake, the black sweaters are a force of PURE EVIL consume their host starting inside the skull and working it's way through the host's nervous system.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -5/+2"I bet this guy's sitting on a fat wallet, the kind of person that never spends his money until he has to."
theyre called jews.
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