Recent content by iantm

Indeed. It’s a fancy 7

Glad I could confirm the compatibility! I picked up a red 7 with an interesting typeface.

Wow am I glad I found this. I just did the same thing- C6 ripped the positive pad off. All the other caps came off without a problem and cleaned up nicely; they seem to alive the multimeter. If all it is is sound I can live without that: but I would like to fix it at some point so once I can...

Good to know! It's far more likely I'd may keep it all internal to my home network, which would still be fun. I don't really have the means to deal with security when it comes to these things and keep it insular is the next best thing to keeping it all turned off in a closet ;). I hope to...

That got me thinking if that was even the point for me, i.e. do I really want my email on my retro machine? The purpose for me was to be distraction less. So maybe I'll try tackling it for the technical exercise at some point. But I'd rather get the quiet machine running to just stand alone.

ChatGPT seems to think it’s possible with a raspberry pi as an intermediate: SE/30 running System 7.1 + Eudora 1.5 + MacTCP. Ethernet connection to your LAN. Raspberry Pi running stunnel and fetchmail, configured like: fetchmail grabs mail from Gmail via IMAP+TLS. stunnel offers a plain POP3...

I tired this before BlueSCSI and FloppyEMU were a thing (or at least I didn’t know about them) and ran into a wall. But now there’s so much work being done to keep these machines alive!

I'm curious about 68k Macs ability to browse and use email services. Do modern email services work at all, because modern security protocols just aren't supported by old software? How feasible is it to even write software for System 6/7 to support any of that? Not that I need to use my SE/30...

Fantastic. I'm just starting this journey, but I feel that 90s kid vibe. I could have never afforded an SE/30 back then, but I got the middle school giggles when I recapped the analog board and it booted with clean video. I love being on this precipice of learning and not knowing exactly wtf I'm...