| Surfing the web (Wikipedia and Hacker News) using a 27-year-old Macintosh Plus. Full story: http://www.keacher.com/1216/how-i-introduced-a-27-year-old-computer-to-the-web/ Manufactured 1986 8MHz MC68000 CPU 4 MB RAM 100 MB Zip drive as storage System 7.0 MacWeb v2.0 browser (circa 1996, not 1994 as shown in the video) Filmed September 2013 Here's a quick summary of how it was done: MacWeb, to MacTCP, to MacPPP, to the serial port, to a level shifter, to a Raspberry Pi (running SLIRP and a custom proxy written with Python, Flask, and Beautiful Soup), to ethernet, to a router, to a cable modem, and off to the internet |
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