Most of us used dialup to get a Mac like that on the internet in 1992, using a land line with whatever modem was available. Hopefully nobody needed the phone to make a call and the ISP number wasn't giving the proverbial busy signal. So I can see the appeal to trying an SE/30 with broadband either via MacIP over LocalTalk or Ethernet. Having it set the date and time via time.apple.com is usually my first step using Network Time Control Panel just to make sure... There really isn't much to do on today's internet with a Mac like that although you can host and FTP server which can be useful, or use Timbuktu to remote in with your iPhone.
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Have se/30 on internet—now what?
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NICs are best use for the PDS slot in almost all Macs that have no other expansion slots. You can now access a file server easily via EtherTalk.
Make a LAN, connect a fast G4 to it and use that to download software from the Macintosh Garden for the SE/30.
I made up an Excel document [1] some years ago listing what network games can be played on what Macs. If you can get more SE/30s (or other macs) on your LAN, Spectre, NetTrek, Pararena and maybe even Bolo can be played as LAN games.
Open question: is it possible to play games via a AppleTalk online? If it is, then this may also be an option for you.
[1] https://macintoshgarden.org/games/macintosh-network-games-excel-file
68k macs kind of sucked on the internet 15+ years ago and things have not been getting better. I have ethernet on my SE/30 mostly for file transfers between machines and servers plus I used to do some FTP stuff. Timbuktu is another thing to try, controlling another computer via software is cool (forget which version I have but it came with the manuals).
Making a disk image on a vintage machine and dumping it on the server for archiving is fun.
Making a disk image on a vintage machine and dumping it on the server for archiving is fun.
If you're networking your Mac check out the http://MacIP.net project. It's an image that you put on a RPi that gives you file share, time sync, a web proxy that your crappy old browser understands, etc.
Hi there! Thank you for your suggestions. I did get the Network Tome panel and that seems to work fine.
Here’s a question. I am using Open Media Vault on a Raspberry Pi 4 for a Network Attached Server that I am sharing between my modern Windows and Macs machines as well as my Raspeberry Pi’s. It has an IP address which is how the other machines access it on my LAN. My SE/30 is also on my LAN now. Question—any idea how I would get NAS shares to mount on the SE/30? Is that even possible?
Thank you for the suggestion. I downloaded TurboGopher on my SE/30 and it fails to resolve the target which is Minnesota URL. Any idea what I’m doing wrong?
If your NAS is running Netatalk 2, then yes.
Have a look at https://hub.docker.com/r/netatalk/netatalk2
You can browse and download software directly from Macintosh Garden. Check out Frogfind which is a sort of search and proxy for modern sites, built by Sean from Action Retro. I also enjoy being able to drop files on to a newer Mac or my Synology NAS, and grab it over the network using the SE/30 - by far the easiest method unless you're copying hundreds of MB.
It doesn’t look like this is a possibility with Open Media Vault. Oh well.If your NAS is running Netatalk 2, then yes.
Have a look at https://hub.docker.com/r/netatalk/netatalk2
Connect to the 68kmla IRC server and chat with us. I do this with vintage Macs, it’s fun.
This is a wonderful idea! How would I do this? Amateur and relative noob here…
Download and install a vintage IRC client, such as Ircle 3.0.4. Set up your username and nick. Then add a connection to irc.68kmla.org, and once connected, type /join #68kmla.
What's the actual URL? Its possible that it doesn't exist anymore. Try gopher://gopher.system7today.com:70/, that actually exists
Good to see you on IRC! Thank you for the suggestion and instructions
I got the same message. Is port 70 right?
Yes it is, 70 is the TCP port that gopher runs on. I can also connect to that gopher URL
Sorry I'm late to this thread. I'm a little biased, but Captain's Quarters II BBS has some good stuff for your networked SE/30 - browse the forums, play over 300 door games, download software from the 10,000+ file collection, read Mac-based text files, get the latest news/sports headlines (updated hourly), and even get your local weather forecast!
