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First Usenet post about Macintosh and Lisa — #1

Google gets it wrong. According to their 20 Year Usenet Timeline, the first post mentioning Macintosh and Lisa was made on August, 1982. In fact, the earliest post mentioning Maci…
68kMLA Development by Dog Cow Tue, 24 Nov 2009 - 18:08

New Farallon PhoneNet adapters — #1

I just scored 7 brand new Farallon PhoneNet adapters for 50 cents each. If I can manage to scrounge up a couple more vintage Macs, I'm gonna host a LAN party with some friends and…
68kMLA Networking by olePigeon Tue, 24 Nov 2009 - 04:06

Getting my LC III on the internet! — #14

To be fair, my Performa 6100/66 works fairly well for web browsing. I can even use gmail from it, using netscape 4. And it's only 66MHz.
68kMLA Networking by Nathan Tue, 24 Nov 2009 - 03:57

Getting a IIci on tah intarwebz. — #12

This is what you need. Click to expand... Thank you, but is that link correct? Does not appear to work.
68kMLA Networking by offensive_jerk Tue, 24 Nov 2009 - 02:35

Getting a IIci on tah intarwebz. — #11

You'll also need to ensure that you're plugging it into a 10Mbps hub - not a 10/100 switch - older Asante gear can't work directly with a 10/100 switch, you must put a 10Mbps hub b…
68kMLA Networking by LCGuy Tue, 24 Nov 2009 - 02:21

Installing Mac OS 8 without CD drive — #7

As far as installing over LocalTalk, I don't recall that being possible. Click to expand... I installed 8.5 over apple talk to a power book 2300c, and it works fine, well its …
68kMLA Networking by Mycatisbigfoot Tue, 24 Nov 2009 - 01:53

Getting a IIci on tah intarwebz. — #9

Does anyone have any experience with the correct drivers on a Asante MCNB Rev A? P/N is 09-00061-03 A3 I looked on Asante's website, and could not find anything on this card. I …
68kMLA Networking by offensive_jerk Tue, 24 Nov 2009 - 01:40

Q605 not seeing FreeBSD/Netatalk server — #1

My Quadra 605 running MacOS 7.6 does not see the shares on my FreeBSD 7.2 with Netatalk running. I can confirm that afpd and atalkd are running. The network is currently Q605 -&am…
68kMLA Networking by weif Sun, 22 Nov 2009 - 17:48

Getting a IIci on tah intarwebz. — #8

I have my IIci on the web with a MacSense E440 NuBus ethernet card. I got the ethernet card new on eBay for $12. Woah, Thanks for the awesome tutorial, I'll setup my IIc…
68kMLA Networking by olePigeon Fri, 20 Nov 2009 - 01:19

New Pismo! New battery...? — #4

Right... It seems to be a pretty good battery, I think my seller was actually quite conservative in his description. I'm going to treat it well and see how the runtime goes. LiIon…
68kMLA Networking by J English Smith Tue, 17 Nov 2009 - 18:14

New Pismo! New battery...? — #3

If the battery holds any charge at all, cycle it through a few full charge/discharge use cycles, and you might find it improves.
68kMLA Networking by Bunsen Tue, 17 Nov 2009 - 17:57

New Pismo! New battery...? — #2

Wow! I got it last night...nice clean 400mhz Pismo with 512k ram...dual boot...wonderful machine! I think I'm in love with Mac all over again! Booted it up last night, the airport …
68kMLA Networking by J English Smith Tue, 17 Nov 2009 - 17:52

OMP and Newton MP 130 + extras — #1

I just scored on an OMP and Newton MP 130 with accessories which includes a Newton keyboard, modem, memory card, serial cable, AC adapter and Apple leather cases for each. The guy…
68kMLA Networking by twocargar Sun, 15 Nov 2009 - 19:48

A Plus, a Farallon Etherwave and internet... — #27

Meanwhile... I've been playing around with System 7 (.5.#) that is supposed to make everything more easy, but unfortunately Open Transport does not work with 68000's processors, so…
68kMLA Networking by numero6 Sat, 14 Nov 2009 - 20:59

A Plus, a Farallon Etherwave and internet... — #26

As a little piglet would say, "Oh D d d dear!" "Hold the shift key and click me again!" -Ozzy's adventures. Actually, the link above has information of the error your picture sho…
68kMLA Networking by PowerPup Fri, 13 Nov 2009 - 05:04

A Plus, a Farallon Etherwave and internet... — #25

;D { "lightbox_close": "Close", "lightbox_next": "Next", "lightbox_previous": "Previous", "lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please tr…
68kMLA Networking by numero6 Wed, 11 Nov 2009 - 18:39

New Pismo! New battery...? — #1

Just got a 400mhz Pismo with good RAM, etc. on eBay. I'm excited to finally get a Pismo after all of these years! Working online with my Powerbook 1400s made me long for more speed…
68kMLA Networking by J English Smith Wed, 11 Nov 2009 - 18:18

Installing Mac OS 8 without CD drive — #6

If the internal hard drive is larger than 4GB (unlikely unless it's been upgraded), don't attempt to install or format the drive over SCSI Disk Mode. There's a firmware bug that l…
68kMLA Networking by Bunsen Sat, 7 Nov 2009 - 17:11

Installing Mac OS 8 without CD drive — #5

As far as installing over LocalTalk, I don't recall that being possible. Click to expand... For example I have a "System 7.5 network install CD", you need a lower version and b…
68kMLA Networking by porter Sat, 7 Nov 2009 - 05:44

Installing Mac OS 8 without CD drive — #4

I do have external SCSI CD drives, but not the HDI-30 adapter to attach it. As far as installing over LocalTalk, I don't recall that being possible.
68kMLA Networking by Hrududu Sat, 7 Nov 2009 - 03:50
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