Websites that work well on these old machines?

#1 Fri, 8 Apr 2011 - 04:56 68kMLA

Heylo,

I can't connect to the gopher:// system under iCab 2.9.9 on my SE/30, does anybody else here know of websites that are primarily text based for easy viewing on these old machines?

When Google takes 20 seconds to load, I like an easier time on these old machines

#2 Fri, 8 Apr 2011 - 05:25 68kMLA

You can always try loading the mobile version of a site - replacing the www. with m. usually works.

#3 Fri, 8 Apr 2011 - 10:31 68kMLA

Try mine:

http://coius.info:8080/

made on an old mac, served on an old mac and designed for old macs. No scripting, the resolution/page format I chose was designed for smaller screens. Take a look!

#4 Fri, 8 Apr 2011 - 10:40 68kMLA

Try mine:http://coius.info:8080/

The videos you've posted on the following web page have all been Removed By User:

http://coius.info:8080/Projects.html

You also need to update us on how your therapy went:

http://coius.info:8080/Random.html

"Ouch!" is certainly an understatement. 8-o

#5 Fri, 8 Apr 2011 - 15:21 68kMLA

A sparse page like Google takes 20 seconds? Yikes. Are you on dialup, too? I'd think even a SE/30 would do better than that.

Most of my personal pages are fairly sparse. Often the only images are the background, which is used across the entire site, so that's downloaded just once. I do some styling with CSS, but the markup is semantic, so if you don't have CSS or turn it off, they still "work" just fine.

#6 Sat, 9 Apr 2011 - 00:50 68kMLA

I have a 1.5MB/sec connection here, and whether it's routed through my Intel Mac mini or direct to the combo modem and router, the max I ever get is 66KB/sec.

It's a 10BASE-T card, the theoretical max as I know it is a hair over 1MB/sec.

#7 Sat, 9 Apr 2011 - 03:17 68kMLA

If you just need gopher access, there are gopher proxies.

http://gopher.floodgap.com/gopher/gw

Should work with 2.9.9.