Online with my Quadra 630

[Mr. 680x0]

I'm online with my Quadra 630 via a PDS ethernet card, and just decided to stop my and say hi. Now if you'll excuse me, I'm gonna go and download ShadowIRC.

 

[tomlee59]

It's just so *fun* to surf with a 68k, isn't it? I mean, just being able to do so with such ancient machines is a kick. I have an old Plus hooked up to the 'net 24/7 just for fun. My students find it amazing that a computer that's about as old as they are can surf (ok, dog-paddle) the net. Your Quadra positively flies in comparison!

Enjoy!

 

[Mr. 680x0]

Netscape is a bit of a pain though. I couldn't download ShadowIRC because SourceForge didn't want to load on the Quadra.

 

[iMac600]

Netscape is a bit of a pain though. I couldn't download ShadowIRC because SourceForge didn't want to load on the Quadra.

Then again, SourceForge doesn't load on much.

It really needs a lot of work to bring it up to code, imho.

 

[MacMan]

Quadras are great on the internet. I've been using my Quadra 700 for internet for the last 3 weeks as part of RetroChallenge and it does the job nicely. Sites like this are OK but I've had a couple of occasions when I've needed to access modern, bloated sites and used the G4. I could quite happily ditch modern machines though and revert to using this Quadra for everything - it would probably be more productive too!

 

[Forrest]

You're better off running iCab 2.9.9 on your old 68K Mac - much faster than Netscape.

http://www.icab.de/index.html

 

[MacMan]

I find iCab is good for accessing complicated sites that won't render properly in Netscape, but it does hog the CPU alot. In terms of speed, Netscape 3 is the fastest browser I've used on my Quadra 700.

Basically I use both Netscape and iCab depending on my needs.

 

[TylerEss]

Try using Netscape 2: it rocks the hizzouse!

 

[Quadraman]

My 630 (actually a Performa 631CD with upgraded 040) has a comm slot ethernet card yanked from one of my LC580's.

 

[macintoshman]

My quadra is slow on the web.

 

[LCGuy]

As is my LC475...which is why it doesn't see the net very often. Ah well, still a great machine.

 

[ianj]

My 840AV can handle many sites capably, but it chokes on fancy stuff like eBay, etc. At the very least, it's decent for reading news and such.