anyone utilizing early Macs to access the internet?

2008/9/22 Chris M <chrism3667 at yahoo.com>: I have tried 2 classic Macs on the Web in the last few years. A maxed-out Classic II: 68030 @ 16MHz on a 16-bit bus, 10MB RAM, MacOS 7.6.1, Netscape 3 and 4, Dayna Ethernet-SCSI adaptor on 8Mb/s ADSL. It worked in the theoretical sense: 25 *min* to render the top-left corner of Slashdot. Later, I set up a Quadra 630 as a "media centre". 25MHz 68040EC, 40MB RAM, comms slot 10base-T Ethernet, MacOS 8.1, IE 4, Netscape Navigator 4.04 and Netscape Communicator 4.6, with Quicktime, Flash, Acrobat Reader 3, stuff like that. Again, it "worked". On the 630, OS 8.1 gave me Netscape 3 and IE 3. Both pretty useless today; they can't render the Google homepage. I put Netscape 4 and IE 4 onto a Zip disk from an OS X Mac, installed 'em and at least I could get online. Both really struggle with the C21 Web and rendering is dog-slow but if you exercise Buddha-like patience you can use it. It's not unakin to being on dial-up. -- Liam Proven ? Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/liamproven Email: lproven at cix.co.uk ? GMail/GoogleTalk/Orkut: lproven at gmail.com Tel: +44 20-8685-0498 ? Cell: +44 7939-087884 ? Fax: + 44 870-9151419 AOL/AIM/iChat: liamproven at aol.com ? MSN/Messenger: lproven at hotmail.com Yahoo: liamproven at yahoo.co.uk ? Skype: liamproven ? ICQ: 73187508