Mac 128K, BBS & The Internet?

Here are a few final things:

You can do file transfers back and forth from MacTerminal (I still use v 1.1) to Mac OS X with a few command line utilities (macutils) available on Mac OS X. It is nice because you can initiate the transfers in both directions from the old mac, just like you used to on a BBS system. I used to use ZTerm on Mac OS X to send applications to 400k disks, but it can be a pain to have to go back and forth to start the transfers.

Because the Mac OS X serial port is being used by getty, it is unavailable for other applications. With the cheap price of these things (prolific adapters on ebay or old Belkin adapters in the thrift store), it is pretty cost effective to have a few laying around.

So that's about everything you need to know to get your old Mac connected to Mac OS X, and then the internet just like when you used to connect to a BBS. All you need to do is learn a tiny bit of unix command line syntax!

Here is my Mac 128k connected to retro-net.org using MacTerminal. It runs lynx to browse the web and I can get email using pine. Very nice free service from them. The lack of arrow keys on my keyboard appears to be an issue though.

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Glad to hear it's working for you! In Lynx (and to some extent in Pine) you can use the < > keys to navigate.

Thanks for the tip. Works perfect!