My Classic II Webserver is Now Live

[CompactMacLover]

Well after much work, I finally got the old Classic II connected to the web. Shes now hosting up a simple web page showing that it can be done. I have a networking teacher that says it cant be done. Cant wait till tomarrow to show her up and send her to this web address. Thanks guys for the help. Now I should probably get a screen saver installed on it so I dont kill the screen

Heres the link to her.

http://classicweb.dlinkddns.com/

My system config is this

Mac Classic II

10MB RAM

40MB Hard Drive

DaynaPort E/Z Serial-Ethernet Adapter

System Software 7.1 w/ Open Transport 1.1.1

MacHTTP 2.6

 

[mcdermd]

Kudos sir!

 

[akator]

Very nice. It's pretty responsive as a server, too

 

[envirogeek]

Kewl! That puts a smile on my face with my morning coffee.

 

[CompactMacLover]

Thanks guys, It was fun to do something like this. I have a networking professor that said it can't be done, s

Should be hilarious when I show it to him later this afternoon. I haven't played around with old macs in about 4 years, I finally got my collection out of storage, at first it was to recover some old files on floppies. But then I had a professor tell me that macs are dead and no one uses old computers anymore. So I showed him, and then realized how much fun it was. When I get my SE 30 up and running it may host a BBS for fun.

The page I created was used with bbedit and the pictures were taken with my iPhone

Then transferred to an iMac. G3 then over appletalk to the classic. I wish apple would have left appletalk in snow leopard.

 

[phreakout]

Um, link is not working. Time to go back to the ol' drawing board.

73s de Phreakout. :rambo:

 

[CompactMacLover]

I left it on while I was at class, came in only to find the cats knocked the dayna off the desk. Shes down for now since im headed out for spring break here in a little bit. But itll be back up eventually. Going to add a BBS to it

 

[phreakout]

Did you show this project to your networking professor yet? Just curious. I was going to comment negatively regarding what was said about mac users, but decided to let it go. No need for a small thing like that to steal my peace. Okay, you forced me into it. Just look at the last quote in my signature. There. I feel better already.

73s de Phreakout. :rambo:

 

[CompactMacLover]

The man was irate.. Hes like thats a fake picture, there is no way that can happen. So i was like go ahead and traceroute it from the school to my house.. Sure enough, showed up with my home IP.. He politely told me never to take any of his classes. My other networking teacher thought it was funny. Shes like bring it in so we can set it up on our subnet so students can learn from it. I just got an ANS 500 that has AIX on it, should be good for when we get into our unix admin classes.

 

[bbraun]

For added old school computing on the internet fun: http://c64web.com is hosted by a 1982 Commodore64. (not mine)

 

[envirogeek]

Don't show your networking prof one of the Newton web server pages, he'll blow a gasket!

Going marginally off topic here but I can't resist.

I've got a host of "You can't do that on a Mac!" stories. I can still remember circa 1987 demoing Wingz on a IIci to a college math professor showing how it could do some some rather complex graphing for the time, smoking Excel on a PC.

He accused me of lying to him and showing him a canned demo even when I showed him the actual code in the spreadsheet.

People with firmly held biases have trouble when their world view is shaken.

 

[techknight]

The problem with those kind of people is they live in their own paradigm, where only what they think/experience can apply, and NOTHING else can. I guess that would mean being biased.

I get that way too sometimes, and im sure most others have. its human nature. Ive become more "open" about things as time goes on, and expect "anything" to happen even when it defies all laws and physics.

I got the same kind of treatment in my collage when i would talk about and work on crazy electronics gadgets of mine.

I even had a DC electronics professor tell me that a color mechanical television operating on modern standards was impossible, no way it could be done economically.

So, the next open house, i brought my project in for display, to represent the electronics class.

I couldn't help but notice towards the end of the day, he was playing with all the RGB Gain, gamma, and sync knobs. LOL.

 

[phreakout]

CompactMacLover,

Wow. Sorry to say this, but I think either that guy has got to retire or you need to look into a different "less-biased" college/learning course. He sounds almost like Ken Olsen, co-founder of DEC, when in 1977 he quoted: "There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home."

73s de Phreakout. :rambo:

 

[funkytoad]

Very neat little project. Something I have considered doing on one of my Classic IIs. Perhaps I will one of these days. Let us know if you ever put it back online. I'd be eager to have a look at it.