On 3/19/2012 10:52 AM, Sam Alexander wrote:
Hey Guys --
I have a Mac SE Superdrive I'd like to get going again, but given I'd
really like to get it online (email, NNTP, Gopher, Telnet, SSH, IRC,
etc) is it worth even trying with this system? As best as I can tell
the RAM maxes out at 4 Megs and most Internet applications I've seen
require much more than this. Or would it be better to look for a Mac
SE/30?
Thanks for any suggestions...
Sam
Plenty of us have similar machines up and running on the internet, but
it's pretty limited. The SE at least has the advantage of having an
ethernet card available that plugs right in instead of things like
SCSI->Ethernet adapters.
The main question is whether you're wanting something kind of neat as a
thing to have on a desk and show people and mess with now and then, or
something you might actually get decent (internet) use out of. For me, I
use my Mac Classic almost exclusively for telnetting into my Linux box
for various things. One big limitation I've run into is a lack of a SSH
client that runs on a 68000 Mac. Not sure if it's a lack of processing
power or just that no one has, but I haven't found one. There are some
very basic web browsers that run, but they aren't going to be a lot of
use. Other than that, the usual early FTP/IRC/Email clients all still
work fine.
The SE/30 on the other hand is a much more capable machine. It'll run
some much later browsers that can still be useable for basics,
IMAP-capable email, SSH clients, etc. It also has Color Quickdraw, which
a lot of middle-to-late 68k programs depend on to work. It'll also
support much more RAM. All in all if you're looking for a B&W compact
Mac for internet work, an SE/30 is probably the best. But they're also
relatively expensive to match.
That said, if you have a working SE, and can get a cheap ethernet card
for it, it'd be worth a shot. Having the Superdrive model makes it much
easier to get stuff transferred from modern computers as you won't need
a "go-between" Mac or other solution.
Scott
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