hello from my Quadra 800 :D

[Flash!]

It's been a while since I've booted this Mac up, and she didn't want to start at first. The power supply seemed dead so I took the cover off and was just about to start fiddling around when she spontaneously came to life. The next problem was that it was trying to boot from the wrong disk/system so I fished around for a bootable CD, started her up, set the startup disk and voila all is good ;-)

The vital statistics are:

Q800 68040, OS8.1, 72MB RAM, Bootdisk = 2GB, Storage = 18GB

I'm viewing this forum on IE4 - it's does not look good at all, script errors and all sorts of shite..... Plus it takes about a week for each page to load!! I dare say that this will be the last time I actually try and view pages on the internet with this baby!

Hmmm the next trick will be to try and connect to my NAS storage and backup all the data on the 18GB disk. I'm thinking that SMB is out of the question so I'll most likely just FTP my way in....I have a tonne of software so I guess it's time to get busy with Stuffit! HQX everything and away we go

 

[LCGuy]

Nice setup. You might want to try a different browser...IE 4 is hardly a great browser...perhaps try iCab. For what its worth, I've got Netscape 3 on a Performa 6200 here in my dorm room, Netscape 3 doesn't render CSS at all, meaning everything looks as ugly as sin, but with javascript turned off its fast and reliable.

As for connecting to an SMB share...you might want to try tracking down a copy of DAVE, 2.5.1 is 68k compatible, and I have no difficulties connecting to any SMB shares using it. If it wasn't on a CD about 400 kilometres south of here, I'd send you a copy.

 

[Flash!]

Oh yeah, I forgot about DAVE. I have a copy but FTP is working fine so i don't think I'll bother

Hey does anyone have a Mac with a working version of Superpaint? I found a picture that I want to open but Superpaint just makes this old Mac crash! If I could email it to someone, and have you export it, take a screenshot or something and then email it back....that would be great!

 

[Cory5412]

Alas, I remember the days when I was able to browse the web completely on my 68k Mac (an 840) running IE 4.

I sometimes wish those days never ended, because boy did I have a nice 68k setup, although it would be the equivalent of rockin' a late G3 or early to midrange G4 in nearly stock condition these days.

As for storage, one thing I did was I set upa hotline server on my 840 and whenever I wanted to move data off of it, I launched hotline and just grabbed whatever I needed using the newer sytem. (You could do it in reverse too.)

 

[bsod]

Nice setup. You might want to try a different browser...IE 4 is hardly a great browser...perhaps try iCab. For what its worth, I've got Netscape 3 on a Performa 6200 here in my dorm room, Netscape 3 doesn't render CSS at all, meaning everything looks as ugly as sin, but with javascript turned off its fast and reliable.
As for connecting to an SMB share...you might want to try tracking down a copy of DAVE, 2.5.1 is 68k compatible, and I have no difficulties connecting to any SMB shares using it. If it wasn't on a CD about 400 kilometres south of here, I'd send you a copy.

I ran IE 2 in my SE/30 for quite some time and it was a really reliable browser! Can't say the same about IE3+, unfortunately .

Of course, Netscape is also a good option. But iCab supports many modern web things, and works well too!

If you have an intermediate Mac (in my case, I have a Performa 5200 running OS 8.6), you can also network the Quadra with that Mac and transfer the contents via AppleTalk to the latter. Then, from there you can burn CD's or do whatever you like (in my case, my 5200 has a big 60 GB IDE drive, so I've got enough storage for all of those vintage apps and old documents! (in fact, I should begin the tedious task of archiving everything I have in my other vintage Macs in that big hard drive - maybe on Summer vacations I do that))

 

[Cory5412]

To be fair to IE4 and IE5, they're pretty much the best, if not the only usable web browsers (in that they handle things they can't do quite gracefully compared to netscape/icab/wamcom-mozilla) that exist on the platforms they serve, IE4 on anything 68k with an '030 or '040 and IE5 on anything PowerPC running 7.6.1 and higher.

Plus, Google and GMail/HTML still work fine on IE4/IE5. One other thing I wish we could get was a modern "mobile" browser ported to system 7, but I'm pretty sure that won't be happening. (alas.)

 

[System7]

My Quadra 800, with 52mb RAM and System 7.6 says Hi to yours.

 

[Christopher]

My dualie G4 is waving hello from it's pedestal on a speaker. :beige:

 

[bsod]

Maybe later I'll salute this fine community from my Performa 5200 . Friday night is TV series night... so, one excuse for firing up the Performa (as it has a TV tuner...).

 

[bsod]

Well, here am I, typing from my Performa 5200 .

It sure looks strange browsing 68k MLA with IE 4.5 and a 640x480 resolution... (the monitor supports up to 832x624, but the TV tuner only operates while the screen is at 640x480...).

 

[LCGuy]

My Performa 6200 (yeah, I'm posting from it now) says hi to your Performa 5200, thanks to Netscape 3. :beige:

 

[Gil]

Unless you're used to dial-up, that must be horrible. :-/

 

[LCGuy]

Its a tad on the slow side, but its really not that bad, and its actually faster than dialup.

And speaking of dialup, ick don't remind me, I'll be using it again in a week.

 

[macgeek417]

Its a tad on the slow side, but its really not that bad, and its actually faster than dialup.
And speaking of dialup, ick don't remind me, I'll be using it again in a week.

Oooh... Does this make you jealous?

Soon we are planning on switching from Dial-Up to broadband!

This is me reminding you that you will be using dial-up again in a week.

This is me reminding you that you will be using dial-up again in a week.

This is me reminding you that you will be using dial-up again in a week.

This is me reminding you that you will be using dial-up again in a week.

This is me reminding you that you will be using dial-up again in a week.

This is me reminding you that you will be using dial-up again in a week.

This is me reminding you that you will be using dial-up again in a week.

This is me reminding you that you will be using dial-up again in a week.

This is me reminding you that you will be using dial-up again in a week.

This is me reminding you that you will be using dial-up again in a week.

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[LCGuy]

Yeah, well there are some broadband connections that I've used that I'd even prefer dialup over. Example: the unbeatable value provided by the Telstra Bigpond $29.95 plan, which gives you 256k down/64k up (theoretically 4 times faster than dialup, realistically not that much faster), and a paltry 200MB/month download limit (which I'd go through in less than a day)

And this is way off topic.

 

[macgeek417]

Yeah, well there are some broadband connections that I've used that I'd even prefer dialup over. Example: the unbeatable value provided by the Telstra Bigpond $29.95 plan, which gives you 256k down/64k up (theoretically 4 times faster than dialup, realistically not that much faster), and a paltry 200MB/month download limit (which I'd go through in less than a day)
And this is way off topic.

Sorry, but Sit-Co has no bandwidth caps, and is 8 times faster!