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    Javascript slows down a G4

    by the way, to me, retro computing IS using it as a daily driver. I don't get into games much.
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    Javascript slows down a G4

    why is that? its just the web. HTML. It used to be that a pentium 100mhz could browse the web quite quickly even with a modem. Now, it takes forever to render a page even on old core duo machines. its like you need server grade hardware to render a website. I'm a hardware guy so I don't...
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    Javascript slows down a G4

    when using classilla i have noticed javascript slows down a g4 quite a bit. are there any alternatives? I wanna put a G4 on Mac OS 9 into daily use on eBay, craigslist, news browsing, et cetera.
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    Quadra 700 Really Strange Floppy Issues

    the drive's grease is probably all dried up and that eject gear has most likely seen better days.  You can refurbish the drive yourself or you can pay someone on here to do it.
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    Usability of 10.3.9 in 2017

    The reason apple survived the 90s was because of elementary schools.  despite the fact that the LC series were the "Celerons" of Macs, they carried the company along.  while my school bought only Mac IIs and quadras, I have been to plenty of auctions where the majority of Macs were the LC Pizza...
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    G5 and memory speeds

    My personal experience with RAM and computers has been that as long as it fits, and it works, you won't notice a difference.  That has been my personal experience.  
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    Usability of 10.3.9 in 2017

    Still, I'd rather sit and use a dual 800 running panther, install commercial software from optical discs, and run Panther, than ever use a Rpi.    I have bought an Rpi each generation they come out, and fail to get excited about any of them.  Mac OS is way prettier no matter how old it is.
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    Usability of 10.3.9 in 2017

    that and There's lots a Pi cannot do: Blu Ray, Sata, install an OS from optical drive, use an analog CRT
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    Usability of 10.3.9 in 2017

    even with everything being said, I don't see droves of PPC diehards abandoning their macs in disgust, and saying "All I need is my Pi!"
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    Using OS9 (or older) for daily internet tasks in 2017

    Slow Phosphor?  I remember that!  OMG!  Like when you turn off a SE/30 and you can see the squiggly line?  OMG I so remember that!@
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    Using OS9 (or older) for daily internet tasks in 2017

    TarableCode, Not everything is possible.  You couldn't, for example, make a SE/30 display grayscale instead of just black and white dithering.  I only kid though.  I'm kind of in a good mood about something and had to jab at you.  but grayscale on an se.30 would be a cool development
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    Usability of 10.3.9 in 2017

    Gorgonops, you bring up an excellent point. I have customers all the time who tell me their phone is faster than their PC. Once customer who said this was running a Dual-Core AMD from 2008 with 4 GB of ram and Windows XP 32 Bit. XP only could see about 3.3 GB of this, of course. To his...
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    Using OS9 (or older) for daily internet tasks in 2017

    Oh and Cory, Im curious, what do you use your 840 / other vintage macs for? Is it solely just games? am I the only one who wants to use vintage computers for day to day modern tasks? Also how could I get another computer to render a page and pass it on to an SE/30? A Proxy?
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    Using OS9 (or older) for daily internet tasks in 2017

    This "stunnel" you speak of, is that something my WRT router could do with say OpenWRT or DD-WRT?
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    Using OS9 (or older) for daily internet tasks in 2017

    We are talking about a Dual 450 G4 (already owned) a Dual 1.25 MDD (Purchasing from a member here) and a Macintosh SE/30 (not yet sourced)
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