My 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.
Of 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 <a class="user" href="http://www2.sunrem.com/sun01.w?pt=210-613">http://www2.sunrem.com/sun01.w?pt=210-613</a> 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.
Nice, 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 :)
jafarNov 18, 2005
Wow. Cool. Dugg.
koskunNov 18, 2005
My 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.
galfridus73Nov 18, 2005
Of 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 <a class="user" href="http://www2.sunrem.com/sun01.w?pt=210-613">http://www2.sunrem.com/sun01.w?pt=210-613</a> 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.
powerbook86Nov 18, 2005
Nice, 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 :)
theblackgeckoNov 18, 2005
Is there anyway to use the monitor and keyboard but put in a new motherboard / HD? That would be awesome to haul around.
tk99Nov 18, 2005
Big Deal I have teacher in college who still uses and enjoys his Apple @ games and all.
a7batNov 18, 2005
Well? What happened? Did he get a new one or was he pissed off? More details!