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posted by mrcoolbp on Monday March 23 2015, @09:47AM   Printer-friendly
from the old-mac-new-internet dept.

From the Kernel:

Reviving an old computer is like restoring a classic car: There’s a thrill from bringing the ancient into the modern world. So it was with my first “real” computer, my Mac Plus, when I decided to bring it forward three decades and introduce it to the modern Web.

Yes, in a certain sense, my Mac has already been on the Internet, first via BBSes and later via Lynx through a dial-up shell sessions. (There’s nothing quite like erotic literature at 2400 bps when you’re 13 years old.) What it never did was run a TCP/IP stack of its own. It was always just a dumb terminal on the ’net, never a full-fledged member.

How hard could it be to right that wrong?

The original article was posted in late 2013, but this republishing qualifies it for timeliness, so that makes it okay.

 
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