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Old February 13th, 2008, 04:40 AM
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That's really nice to come across an Apple computer that old and has never been unboxed until recently. Interesting to note though is that the iPod Touch is probably more powerful and versatile than the Apple II platform.
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Old February 18th, 2008, 12:20 AM
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That's really nice to come across an Apple computer that old and has never been unboxed until recently. Interesting to note though is that the iPod Touch is probably more powerful and versatile than the Apple II platform.
A touchscreen multimedia device running OS X? No way! I'd bet my wristwatch would give the old Mac a run for its money.
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Nice one!
I still got one Mac 512 and one Mac Plus in mint condition at home
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You could always try and get it working on the internet. My Quadra is doing just that.
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Do those old Macs' websites have to look like they were designed "back then"? (I'm kidding. No offense meant...)
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Do those old Macs' websites have to look like they were designed "back then"? (I'm kidding. No offense meant...)
Well, understand that they are 15+ year-old computers so the less they have to process the better, especially with the more hits that they get. If you wanted to, you could run Debian GNU/Linux or NetBSD on them along with Apache, PHP, a SQL database, and whatever else you need to run a "web 2.0" site, but I doubt that those ancient processor would be able to handle the load. I haven't ruled it out as a weekend project, though..

As for my page, I'm not a web developer/designer. I learned what I have through W3Schools and some other pages online and use KompoZer to create and edit the page. I also wanted it to be simple and not too flashy. I'm quite happy with it. I used the frames mainly because I wanted to keep the title and menu static from the rest of the content. And the "blog" isn't even a blog in its truest sense. I just manually update it as I post...not that I haven't looked for a true blog solution, believe me (there's nothing available for MacHTTP anyways). Maybe once I give the NetBSD/Debian solution a run over a weekend that might be a possibility.

But just to one-up all those Macs, the guy who created the server directory (aptly nicknamed "Luddite" ) actually has a web server running on an Apple IIe. It's down at the moment, but it's quite a novelty to see when it's up and running. He's using Contiki Web Server for the Apple IIe. I've even seen a C-64 used as a web server.
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