Re: Mac 512 and LaserWriter IIg questions

2005-03-08 Thread Liam Proven
On Mon, 7 Mar 2005 18:01:15 -0500, Thomas Burns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes, that's a good site, but that's a Mac Plus, with 4mbs of ram and a scsi > Ethernet connection I believe. Gosh. I hadn't realized this was an /even lower/ spec machine! If the software will run from 2 DD floppies, cer

Re: Mac 512 and LaserWriter IIg questions

2005-03-07 Thread Thomas Burns
Yes, that's a good site, but that's a Mac Plus, with 4mbs of ram and a scsi Ethernet connection I believe. Thomas - Original Message - From: "Liam Proven" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Vintage Macs" Sent: Monday, March 07, 2005 9:23 AM Subject: Re: Mac 51

Re: Mac 512 and LaserWriter IIg questions

2005-03-07 Thread simon
On 7-mrt-05, at 15:23, Liam Proven wrote: On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 17:12:00 -0500, Thomas Burns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: My first question is, can you put a web server on a Mac 512k/e? It's been done. Go visit http://aurejac.dyndns.org/ looking at that: i have a 512ke with a memory upgrade to 1Mb. Ma

Re: Mac 512 and LaserWriter IIg questions

2005-03-07 Thread Liam Proven
On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 17:12:00 -0500, Thomas Burns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My first question is, can you put a web server on a Mac 512k/e? It's been done. Go visit http://aurejac.dyndns.org/ -- Liam Proven Home: http://welcome.to/liamsweb * Blog: http://lproven.livejournal.com AOL, Yahoo U

Re: Mac 512 and LaserWriter IIg questions

2005-03-04 Thread Robert Gray
At 3:30 PM -0500 on 3/4/05, "Thomas Burns" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ...what is the pds slot on a LaserWriter IIg motherboard for? I assume you mean the IIg logic board...the board that makes any series two LaserWriter a IIg. I don't see any plug on the board. The only connector internal to the

Re: Mac 512 and LaserWriter IIg questions

2005-03-03 Thread Gregg Eshelman
There are dinky little devices with an Ethernet connector on one end and a .1" spacing pin header on the other for a serial port. In between is some amazingly small technology that connects the two. What they do is enable just about anything with a serial port to connect to a TCP/IP network. The

Re: Mac 512 and LaserWriter IIg questions

2005-03-03 Thread Allan Hunter
Therein lies your problem. I used System 4 for quite a while, and it was tiny and nimble and very nice on a 512. I remember System 3, too, but it was no OS for a computer with a hard drive. But I really doubt that any Mac System older than System 6 will work with MacTCP. Maybe, just maybe, y

Re: Mac 512 and LaserWriter IIg questions

2005-03-03 Thread Thomas Burns
device and when hit, the Atari would just squirt out a few lines of html and that was about all it could do with 48k. I'm just wondering if this was a solvable problem. Thomas - Original Message - From: "Allan Hunter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Vintage Macs" Se

Re: Mac 512 and LaserWriter IIg questions

2005-03-03 Thread Allan Hunter
At 5:12 PM -0500 3/3/05, Thomas Burns wrote: My first question is, can you put a web server on a Mac 512k/e? I was wondering if you could use system 6.0.8 and run the connection via AppleTalk bridge? Would the limiting factor be the memory? Wow. I guess you could shoehorn System 6.0.8 plus MacTC