(Almost) wireless networking with a PowerBook 100

[emendelson]

This isn't really a great accomplishment, but I thought it was worth trying:

http://www.columbia.edu/~em36/pb100/PowerBook100Wireless.html

Summary version: connecting to the Internet from System 6.0.8, 7.0.1, and 7.1 through a PowerBook 100 with SCSI-Ethernet adapter connected (by an ethernet cable) to an Airport Express base station linked wirelessly to an Airport Extreme router. Not exactly no-wire networking, because there's a wire between the PowerBook 100 and the Airport Express, but wireless between the AirPort Express and the router.

(Apologies for posting this again after mistakenly posting it in the PPC PowerBook forum; I've asked the moderators to remove the post that's in the wrong place.)

 

[Anonymous Freak]

You can use Telnet to get to retro-net (telnet link,) then use their "1 - Internet" link to launch the text-mode web browser Lynx; which works for nearly any non-Flash-dependent website.

Including Apple.com: (although not well,)

and the 68kmla:

But now you have me wondering if I could hack this to be completely internal in a Macintosh Portable......... (Hrm, the APExp needs 5V @ 0.7A and 3.3V @ 1.21A, I suppose I'd have to find out if the Portable can even put that out.) Imagine the gawks you would get browsing the web (no matter how ridiculously badly,) on one of these beasts at a coffee shop! (Of course, you'd need to do the setup of your AirPort before you left from another computer...)

P.S. MacWWW version 1.0.3 will work in System 6.0.8 on a 68000 processor. See here, and here.

 

[LCGuy]

Good work...even though its a pretty simple process for anyone familiar with vintage Macs, its great to see a machine as old as the PB100 surfing the internet wirelessly.

 

[emendelson]

I'll give that a try - thanks!

Unfortunately, I could never get MacWWW to run under 6.0.8 on my PowerBook 100. It crashed every time. Has anyone actually got it working?

 

[Bunsen]

There's alos porter's browser6