On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 21:42:23 -0500, Eagle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > useable. Well, the 128 & 512, not so much, but the Plus can still be > networked on today's networks and can still communicate with today's > machines. It's VERY cool. Just try THAT on a 20-year-old PC!
Oh come *on.* Let's not get carried away here. A friend of mine recently set up an IBM PC as a web server, for a bet. An actual original IBM PC 5150, not an XT, although he did use one with a hard disk fitted. Running TCP/IP over an internal Ethernet card and a web server, under MS-DOS 3.3, serving pages over the Internet. Tricky but perfectly doable. I have an original IBM PS/2 Model 80-A21 on my LAN, as a server. It's a 386-25DX with 16MB of RAM - 8MB on the planar, 8MB on an expansion board. It runs PC-DOS 7.0, OS/2 Warp Server 4 and MS Windows NT Server 3.51 SP5 - the latter is the main OS. It's slow but functional and very stable. In my first job, this was the absolute top of the range most powerful PC IBM sold and money could buy. My config - with CD-ROM, tape drive and a few gig of SCSI disks - would have cost around �35,000 (UKP) excluding tax. Mine came out of a skip. (A "dumpster" to any colonials out there.) That's the oldest, least powerful PC I run, but it's a fine machine - dates from 1987, so it's 18yr old - old enough to vote - but it's happily running a fully 32-bit operating system that wasn't even released until about 6yr later. That's quality kit for you. (OS2 can't talk to its network card, sadly.) Of *course* any old PC can talk to modern machines and be networked, if you wish. I still keep a machine with a 5�" drive on my home LAN just in case I need to read old disks, same as I keep a Mac Classic II on the LAN - and am looking for either a Quadra 840AV (the fastest ever pre-PowerPC Mac) or perhaps an A/UX machine to complement it. Any why do I love my compact Mac? Well, it's the last of the line. The last ever all-in-one 9" mono screen Mac. In some ways I'd rather have an SE30, which is much more powerful and could be expanded in fun ways - I have a Mac 21" mono monitor, and I'd *love* to have that on an SE/30 running A/UX, it would be *so cool* :�) - but my little Classic II came to me for free and it's expanded to the hilt with bits that I mostly already had or swapped with mates for free and are all themselves too old to be any use anywhere else. It has a CD-ROM, Zip drive, external 200MB hard disk, internal 200MB hard disk, and Ethernet, and its RAM is maxed out at 10MB. Dual-boots system 7.6.1 - the latest MacOS it can run and the last ever version of System 7 - and System 6.0.8L, the earliest it will run and the last ever assembly-language MacOS. It runs MS Word 5.1a, mostly, and is as good a wordprocessor as it ever was - but it also has Netscape 3 and can browse the Web. Opening slashdot.org takes about 25min. :�) Lovely little machine: tiny, cute, elegant, efficient and stylish, and the last of a distinguised line. -- Liam Proven Home: http://welcome.to/liamsweb * Blog: http://lproven.livejournal.com AOL, Yahoo UK: liamproven * ICQ: 73187508 * MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Compact Macs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/>. Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Compact Macs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/compact.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[email protected]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive:<http://www.mail-archive.com/compact.macs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
