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Quadra 800 on the internet?
- Thread starter Arkas
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Welcome aboard! The Quadra 800 is a very nice find. It's in that comfortable spot where it's high end, but no so high end that things are weird.
The Quadra 800 has Ethernet onboard, although if you don't already have one, you will need a transceiver to connect it to an rj45 based network. (or a thinnet or a fiber network, for that matter.)
Using the software built into system 7.1 and newer it should recognize that a network exists and be able to 'get on' by way of acquiring an IP address.
You can install a web browser like IE4 or Netscape 4, but that will likely be an unfun experience on that machine.
The guide most often linked is here: http://www.applefool.com/se30/
The Quadra 800 has Ethernet onboard, although if you don't already have one, you will need a transceiver to connect it to an rj45 based network. (or a thinnet or a fiber network, for that matter.)
Using the software built into system 7.1 and newer it should recognize that a network exists and be able to 'get on' by way of acquiring an IP address.
You can install a web browser like IE4 or Netscape 4, but that will likely be an unfun experience on that machine.
The guide most often linked is here: http://www.applefool.com/se30/
Turning it into a web server might be one possibility. It will do that surprisingly well. Some resources can be found with perseverance in here (a bit ragged these days, but there are still some "live" 68k servers with tool hints listed): http://servers.ld8.org .
What it won't do well is access much on the modern web. My own tactic there would be to restrict myself to Gopher servers and the like, or text-only HTML via wannabe.
What it won't do well is access much on the modern web. My own tactic there would be to restrict myself to Gopher servers and the like, or text-only HTML via wannabe.
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