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Have se/30 on internet—now what?

mloret

mloret

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Hello! With a bluescsi v2 I was able to connect my se/39 to the internet. I launched a browser and found that it was painfully slow, so surfing the web is probs my not going to be great with this uncelebrated machine. I was wondering if someone might suggest some BBS option for me or some other fun ways to use the internet with my SE/30? Thank you!
 
I've never really understood why people are so keen to get those machines on the Internet - there's really very little to do once you're on it other than go "well, this is bad at being on the Internet, ok".
 
You may have a point but dammit I wanna find a use! If for nothing else than to say “well, I connected to a bbs and it was lousy.”
 
I think it's more of a personal challenge of "can I make this work" and/or nostalgia. I know when I played around with ARA + serial + Basilisk II as an internet gateway it was the first category. Looking at websites rendered in Mosaic for me, falls into the second.
 
mloret said:
Hello! With a bluescsi v2 I was able to connect my se/39 to the internet. I launched a browser and found that it was painfully slow, so surfing the web is probs my not going to be great with this uncelebrated machine. I was wondering if someone might suggest some BBS option for me or some other fun ways to use the internet with my SE/30? Thank you!
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bbs.fozztexx.net on port 23 and cqbbs.ddns.net on port 6800, use Black Night for the best experience. Also, use MR Browser to get stuff on the SE/30
 
Coming back to the web for a moment, you could set up a web proxy on another machine that transcodes modern web sites to primitive html. A 68030 machine should be pretty capable at rendering text centric pages from hackernews or arstechnica in MacWeb or Netscape 2, say.

Shameless plug: try my fork of macproxy: https://github.com/rdmark/macproxy
 
Bookmark this pages:
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Apps for Internet:
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  • LegacyAI
  • IRC
  • BBS


Bookmark on Mac OS 9 machine:
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There is probably more :) but it is a good start
 
slomacuser said:
Bookmark this pages:
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Apps for Internet:
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  • LegacyAI
  • IRC
  • BBS


Bookmark on Mac OS 9 machine:
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There is probably more :) but it is a good start
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and mac84.net, he has a link to a lot of different sites for old macs on his retro site
 
slipperygrey said:
Coming back to the web for a moment, you could set up a web proxy on another machine that transcodes modern web sites to primitive html. A 68030 machine should be pretty capable at rendering text centric pages from hackernews or arstechnica in MacWeb or Netscape 2, say.

Shameless plug: try my fork of macproxy: https://github.com/rdmark/macproxy
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or https://github.com/tenox7/wrp
it's the one I have installed in my lan
it sends a clickable image of any web site
 
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cheesestraws said:
I've never really understood why people are so keen to get those machines on the Internet - there's really very little to do once you're on it other than go "well, this is bad at being on the Internet, ok".
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It recalls my friends of mine are asking "Why bother fixing PCs that now are useless'?"
I reply "Because I like it" :D
 
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