What to do with my LC III...

[macgeek417]

What to do with my LC III...

Right now it's just sitting here, so anyone got any ideas of what I could use it for? It'd be a shame for it to just sit here unused...

 

[porter]

If you could get a fast enough FPU you could run NetBSD on it.

 

[macgeek417]

I allready have a Linux machine!

 

[sammy7000]

You could try out nasty old Mac OS betas!

 

[johnklos]

If you could get a fast enough FPU you could run NetBSD on it.

You don't even need an FPU. Also, because the LC III is only 25 MHz, and since most FPUs were made from the same fab process, most 16 MHz (except, perhaps, the earliest of the 68881s) will run at 25 MHz just fine.

 

[porter]

If you could get a fast enough FPU you could run NetBSD on it.

You don't even need an FPU.

I found mine collapsed in a heap trying to generate SSH keys.

 

[ClassicHasClass]

My Q605 running NetBSD does take about 45 seconds to pop out SSH keys. However, it has a 25MHz full '040, so ...

 

[Hrududu]

I used a Performa 400 (same form factor) as a monitor prop back when I used a CRT. They work great for that sort of thing.

 

[macgeek417]

Well... fight now it is kinda a monitor stand...

 

[PowerPup]

If it has a Ethernet card, you could run some server programs on it. I made a LC III into a LAN Mail and DNS server. (Both programs were made by Apple.) You could also make it an IRC server.

I also had made it so it could boot up without a monitor, keyboard and mouse. I just made an apple script file to start up the programs in order. Then play a sound file to indicate when it was done. I used a db-15 to vga-15 adapter to get it to work without a monitor.

 

[Gil]

I also had made it so it could boot up without a monitor, keyboard and mouse. I just made an apple script file to start up the programs in order. Then play a sound file to indicate when it was done. I used a db-15 to vga-15 adapter to get it to work without a monitor.

You could also add Timbuktu, so that you could actually use the computer without a monitor.

 

[johnklos]

My Q605 running NetBSD does take about 45 seconds to pop out SSH keys. However, it has a 25MHz full '040, so ...

Which ssh keys are these? When you first generate all keys when first using sshd, it takes a lot longer, so I assume you mean a different kind of ssh keys.

ssh-keygen -t dsa takes:

about 492 CPU seconds on a 50 MHz m68040

about 106 CPU seconds on a 66 MHz m68060

Yes, it'd take AGES on an LC III m68030. On the other hand, -m68030, -m68040, and -m68060 options help a lot with things like ssh.

 

[macgeek417]

I wouldn't be able to turn it into anything server-y as my isp has 1 ip for _everyone_ on each tower, so no incoming connections.

 

[PowerPup]

Aww. That's a bit of a bummer. Hm.. What else? Can't really think of anything other than putting old games and stuff on it and trying to find a place for it.

 

[johnklos]

I wouldn't be able to turn it into anything server-y as my isp has 1 ip for _everyone_ on each tower, so no incoming connections.

Tower? You mean on each wireless tower? They're putting more than one customer behind the same NAT? Oh, my!

 

[porter]

I wouldn't be able to turn it into anything server-y as my isp has 1 ip for _everyone_ on each tower, so no incoming connections.

That is really stretching the definition of internet service provider. Ask them for an IPv6 address and see what they say.

 

[macgeek417]

I wouldn't be able to turn it into anything server-y as my isp has 1 ip for _everyone_ on each tower, so no incoming connections.

Tower? You mean on each wireless tower? They're putting more than one customer behind the same NAT? Oh, my!

I wouldn't be able to turn it into anything server-y as my isp has 1 ip for _everyone_ on each tower, so no incoming connections.

That is really stretching the definition of internet service provider. Ask them for an IPv6 address and see what they say.

Yup. They have ~50 towers. They have thousands of customers.

I wonder what they would say if asked for an IPv6 address...

The only "IP address" i get is a 10.*.*.* subnet one.

I wonder if its changed since they switched *their* isp, but they did have one of those 100Mbit connections to each tower. now they have ATT.

 

[macgeek417]

...but its better than my old dialup so im not complaining

 

[macgeek417]

Oh and i forgot to mention that it's very unreliable... pingtest gives me an F and 5-10% of the time the connections down

I cant wait till Insight, Sigicom, SBC, Comcast, Insight or anyone else run wires out here!

I miss my old top-of-the-line cable connection from when I lived IN Evansville instead of right outside of it...