29 Sep
2005
29 Sep
'05
4:42 a.m.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Scott Stevens" <chenmel at earthlink.net>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
<cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2005 12:05 AM
Subject: Re: YATYRD (was: PalmOS no more? :(
Right now I am trawling around the net on a Quadra
650, to see what is
possible and what's not. Some interesting surprises I am finding. The
'Low End Mac' website crashes when you try to go there on a Quadra 650
using Netscape 4. Huh? Internet Explorer 4.01 is still available for
Mac 68k if you trawl around enough looking for it. (don't bother
looking at Microsoft)
Not as interesting as the time I installed Windows NT for PowerPC on an
RS/6000 box and trawled around trying to find anything AT ALL on the net
that it would run. (You're stuck with the Internet Explorer 2.0 that
comes built into NT, which _won't_ _even_ _load_ _www.microsoft.com_
_anymore._
Low End Mac went from talking about the virtues of 68K Macs one day to
drooling over OSX and G4/G5 era machines the next, I rarely bother visiting
the site anymore and I used to check it out every week a few years ago.
Anyway the fastest 68K Mac I have is a Quadra 950 with a NewerTech 68040/50
CPU upgrade (has built in 128K cache also) and browsing the newer websites
is still fairly slow (but much faster then the stock 33Mhz chip) and prone
to crashing (probably a browser issue causing crashing). Even with the
issues you can still get on the net for drivers, reviews, ebay, etc on that
machine which is all I need it to do on the internet.