Another old school Mac hits the net

[gavo]

Hi,

No real point to this post, other than the fact that its another old school Mac thats being used to post it

I've got my newly acquired LC475 up and running and this is coming to you from Netscape Navigator 4.03 on top of System 7.5.5 and Open Transport 1.1.2.

Defintely not a daily driver, but absolutely usable for a Sunday drive

Hours of fun ;-)

Cheers,

 

[Temetka]

Back when I had my LC475, I enjoyed hours of retro computing. I can surely understand your taking joy in the use of a great machine. I use the word great because my LC475 never let me down. I used to write some papers for college, do network diagrams, some coding and basic web usage for close to a year. It was pretty speedy for an LC. I added in a full '040 processor and a 32MB SIMM along with a 4.3GB SCSI HD. The machine came with the network card I needed so that was cool. For browsing I mainly stuck to Navigator as well. It was my primary browser back when Netscape was the premier browser.

I hope your machine brings back as many fond memories as well helping to create new ones. May it serve you well.

 

[MacMan]

I remember when I got my LC 475 - I had been using a Mac Plus up to that point so the LC 475 felt so fast in comparison and it had colour! It was the machine that started me on the internet with a 14K US Robotics modem and Netscape 3. Eventually I got a 56K modem for it and used it as my internet machine for about a year before getting an iMac.

Good for you, the LC 475's are great machines for 68K fun. They also make good web servers!

 

[luddite]

You might want to give iCab a try... with CSS disabled it's a pretty decent browser. I'd say it's better than Netscape, but opinions are divided, so I'll just say it's *different* ;-)

 

[Anonymous Freak]

I've found that modern websites are less likely to puke their code all over your screen in iCab than in Netscape, but that websites whose design is older tend to "look more correct" in Netscape.

 

[gavo]

Ahhh, iCab- Yes, now this post is coming via my LC475 running iCab 2.9.9b

Certainly appears more modern and from the short play I've had with it, quicker thaNetscpe (although certainly not speedy ;-) ).lso think I prefer the way it renders pages.

Anyway, the last Mac I owned before moving to the PC was a LC475 - I'm glad I've got another one to play with.

When I consider thOh no - lol, as I typed that about liking how it renders pages this post a message pages has become all messed up and I cant see what I'm typing! lol - thems the breaks I guess

Cheers,