On 2010-01-24 11:12 -0800, Possum Stu wrote: >I've been a Mac user continuously since I bought a Mac 512ke in 1986. >I currently own a Mac Plus and want to bring it to work as a >decoration/conversation piece. Plus I think it'd be cool to have a >computer on my desk that is older than several of our employees. > >But I don't just want it to just sit there; I'd like it to station it >unattended in the corner and have it DO something other than run the >"Pyro" screen saver. One limitation: it'd have to run off the boot up >floppy. > >I'd appreciate any ideas. Thanks in advance.
Hi there. Here http://www.startty.com/ is a good idea that can be doing with vintage computers. It requires a serial port plus an Ethernet-to-serial device for vintage computers with RS-232 only. I’m not expert on this, maybe with a second Apple (not so vintage) computer in your LAN and hi-level software, any text can be extracted from an Internet news/weather source web site (cnn.com?). Then this information can be adapted/formatted and “pumped” (via AppleTalk?) to the vMac (from here, vintage Mac) to be displayed. vMac needs to be running terminal client software that does the display job (like HyperTerminal on PCs). Of course, this requires somebody to write a hi-level robot software to scan and catch every x minutes the info from the Internet source. Other way: the software can read/copy the information from web object (text box) that hold the text loaded directly in your web browser (as some spam software does to catch emails or to write in input boxes to send lots of SMS). Maybe somebody else here have a better/easy idea. I don't have experience with vMac software rather than to install OS and basic stuff… I think that System 6 and the serial client will fit on a 800K diskette. Regards, Rodolfo. (I’m sorry for bugs in my English). _________________________________________________________________ Your E-mail and More On-the-Go. Get Windows Live Hotmail Free. http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/201469229/direct/01/ -- ----- You received this message because you are a member of the Vintage Macs group. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To leave this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs Support for older Macs: http://lowendmac.com/services/
