anyone utilizing early Macs to access the internet?

The VMS Hobbyist distribution has a very early version of Netscape, and I've run that on my VAX 4000-300 (under DECwindows, of course). As you would expect it's dog slow, and many sites just don't render since they're so dependent on JS, Flash, etc. But it's fun to be able to said I've surfed the Web on my VAX. -- Ian ________________________________________ From: cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org [cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Teo Zenios [teoz at neo.rr.com] Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2008 12:04 AM To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts Subject: Re: anyone utilizing early Macs to access the internet? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris M" <chrism3667 at yahoo.com> To: "talk" <cctalk at classiccmp.org> Sent: Monday, September 22, 2008 3:14 PM Subject: anyone utilizing early Macs to access the internet? Depends on your definition of getting online. The issues most early 68K macs have is the web browsers are old, CPU are slow, the WWW has too many features not supported by the old system+hardware combo, you generally need some extra RAM installed, and you really want to have a network card installed. I used to do some light browsing on my IIfx machines (68030/40 with 32MB RAM system 7.1, 1024x768 @24 bit video). I do not browse on my Compact SE's because a 68000 would choke, the SE/30's with 68030/16 are faster but the resolution is still mono and small. The 68040 Quadra's are better but you are limited to IE 4 which is real old (you need a PPC for IE 5 which is the end of the line for Mac). IRC should be ok on most of them. You can still do email on just about any of them as long as your ISP interfaces with old software. I find youtube or other video online to be too much for anything pre G4.