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[sanddrag]

They make a good webserver.

If Apple ever made another machine like this, I would be in heaven. I love the compact Macs (except when they decide not to let you inside when you are trying to open them).

Unfortunately, a lot of the compact Macs weren't kept to super high quality standards. The ones that have escaped the trash dumpster and are still with us today are starting to get cracked solder joints and leaking electrolytic capacitors.

I'm doing my part in "keeping history alive" as a proud owner of 4 compact Macs, an LC III, and an Apple ][C+

Everyone shoudl go buy one of these things (some I've gotten for free actually) just for the sake of keeping it alive. There is still oodles and oodles of software available for free that will run on them.

[KenWittlief]

Originally Posted by sanddrag

They make a good webserver

there is a big difference between a functional webserver and a 'good webserver'

somehow I dont think old Macs are the PC of choice for hosting a business website.

[sanddrag]

Okay, so it is a functional webserver. It works about as well as you could expect for what it is.

However, the SE/30 can make an excellent webserver if you ask me. It can serve HTTP, FTP (download), POP3, SMTP, and DNS all on 16MHz and 16mb of RAM and still have memory to spare.

Now, it would get bogged down with more than probably 15 or so connections at any one time, but it is just a matter "taking a ticket and waiting in line" Macs are kind of funny like that. They may be slow (and act like they are stuck) but 90+% of the time, they do reach the end of whatever they were working on successfully without crashing.

The cool thing about these Macs (even 8Mhz 4mb RAM ones) is that I can print to a color laser printer over ethernet, and share files, programs, and even whole drives between them over an ethernet network. I'd say that's impressive considering they are almost 15 years old. I can post on ChiefDelphi from one too! But I do need a 68030 (or maybe a 68020 will do) processor for that though (to run MS Internet Explorer 2.1)

[Chris Marra]

Originally Posted by sanddrag

Okay, so it is a functional webserver. It works about as well as you could expect for what it is.

However, the SE/30 can make an excellent webserver if you ask me. It can serve HTTP, FTP (download), POP3, SMTP, and DNS all on 16MHz and 16mb of RAM and still have memory to spare.

Now, it would get bogged down with more than probably 15 or so connections at any one time, but it is just a matter "taking a ticket and waiting in line" Macs are kind of funny like that. They may be slow (and act like they are stuck) but 90+% of the time, they do reach the end of whatever they were working on successfully without crashing.

The cool thing about these Macs (even 8Mhz 4mb RAM ones) is that I can print to a color laser printer over ethernet, and share files, programs, and even whole drives between them over an ethernet network. I'd say that's impressive considering they are almost 15 years old. I can post on ChiefDelphi from one too! But I do need a 68030 (or maybe a 68020 will do) processor for that though (to run MS Internet Explorer 2.1)

I prefer the Newton Webserver

[Brian Lesser]

Surprisingly, I remember that Mac...

Sure it was small, but it was awsome to me back when I was in 1st (?) grade.

By the way, how's the Nano?

[Bill Moore]

Originally Posted by sanddrag

The cool thing about these Macs (even 8Mhz 4mb RAM ones) is that . . .

Actually, one of the cool things about the very early Macs was that all the developers signatures were molded onto the inside of the casings. At some point, they quit doing this and started putting the development team names and/or photos in the ROM -- which became easter eggs for people to find.

Someday, I'll turn my Fat Mac (512k RAM) into an aquarium, and paint the inside deep blue, with bright white paint highlighting the signatures. A little reminder of an exciting time in consumer computer history.

[Greg Marra]

Dugg!