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What to do with my LC III...

68kMLA · 68k · 22 posts · Nov 23, 2009 — Nov 26, 2009 View original thread ↗

#1 Mon, 23 Nov 2009 - 18:30 68kMLA

What to do with my LC III...

Right now it's just sitting here, so anyone got any ideas of what I could use it for? It'd be a shame for it to just sit here unused...

#2 Mon, 23 Nov 2009 - 20:28 68kMLA

If you could get a fast enough FPU you could run NetBSD on it.

#3 Mon, 23 Nov 2009 - 22:32 68kMLA

I allready have a Linux machine!

#4 Mon, 23 Nov 2009 - 22:38 68kMLA

You could try out nasty old Mac OS betas!

#5 Mon, 23 Nov 2009 - 23:02 68kMLA

If you could get a fast enough FPU you could run NetBSD on it.

You don't even need an FPU. Also, because the LC III is only 25 MHz, and since most FPUs were made from the same fab process, most 16 MHz (except, perhaps, the earliest of the 68881s) will run at 25 MHz just fine.

#6 Tue, 24 Nov 2009 - 00:58 68kMLA

If you could get a fast enough FPU you could run NetBSD on it.

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You don't even need an FPU.

I found mine collapsed in a heap trying to generate SSH keys.

#7 Tue, 24 Nov 2009 - 02:29 68kMLA

My Q605 running NetBSD does take about 45 seconds to pop out SSH keys. However, it has a 25MHz full '040, so ...

#8 Tue, 24 Nov 2009 - 03:37 68kMLA

I used a Performa 400 (same form factor) as a monitor prop back when I used a CRT. They work great for that sort of thing.

#9 Tue, 24 Nov 2009 - 04:31 68kMLA

Well... fight now it is kinda a monitor stand...

#10 Tue, 24 Nov 2009 - 05:05 68kMLA

If it has a Ethernet card, you could run some server programs on it. I made a LC III into a LAN Mail and DNS server.

(Both programs were made by Apple.) You could also make it an IRC server.

I also had made it so it could boot up without a monitor, keyboard and mouse. I just made an apple script file to start up the programs in order. Then play a sound file to indicate when it was done. I used a db-15 to vga-15 adapter to get it to work without a monitor.

#11 Tue, 24 Nov 2009 - 15:28 68kMLA

I also had made it so it could boot up without a monitor, keyboard and mouse. I just made an apple script file to start up the programs in order. Then play a sound file to indicate when it was done. I used a db-15 to vga-15 adapter to get it to work without a monitor.

You could also add Timbuktu, so that you could actually use the computer without a monitor.

#12 Tue, 24 Nov 2009 - 19:50 68kMLA

My Q605 running NetBSD does take about 45 seconds to pop out SSH keys. However, it has a 25MHz full '040, so ...

Which ssh keys are these? When you first generate all keys when first using sshd, it takes a lot longer, so I assume you mean a different kind of ssh keys.

ssh-keygen -t dsa takes:

about 492 CPU seconds on a 50 MHz m68040

about 106 CPU seconds on a 66 MHz m68060

Yes, it'd take AGES on an LC III m68030. On the other hand, -m68030, -m68040, and -m68060 options help a lot with things like ssh.

#13 Tue, 24 Nov 2009 - 22:02 68kMLA

I wouldn't be able to turn it into anything server-y as my isp has 1 ip for _everyone_ on each tower, so no incoming connections.

#14 Tue, 24 Nov 2009 - 22:26 68kMLA

Aww. That's a bit of a bummer.

Hm.. What else? Can't really think of anything other than putting old games and stuff on it and trying to find a place for it.

#15 Wed, 25 Nov 2009 - 13:49 68kMLA

I wouldn't be able to turn it into anything server-y as my isp has 1 ip for _everyone_ on each tower, so no incoming connections.

Tower? You mean on each wireless tower? They're putting more than one customer behind the same NAT? Oh, my!

#16 Wed, 25 Nov 2009 - 16:50 68kMLA

I wouldn't be able to turn it into anything server-y as my isp has 1 ip for _everyone_ on each tower, so no incoming connections.

That is really stretching the definition of internet service provider. Ask them for an IPv6 address and see what they say.

#17 Wed, 25 Nov 2009 - 23:15 68kMLA

I wouldn't be able to turn it into anything server-y as my isp has 1 ip for _everyone_ on each tower, so no incoming connections.

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Tower? You mean on each wireless tower? They're putting more than one customer behind the same NAT? Oh, my!

I wouldn't be able to turn it into anything server-y as my isp has 1 ip for _everyone_ on each tower, so no incoming connections.

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That is really stretching the definition of internet service provider. Ask them for an IPv6 address and see what they say.

Yup. They have ~50 towers. They have thousands of customers.

I wonder what they would say if asked for an IPv6 address...

The only "IP address" i get is a 10.*.*.* subnet one.

I wonder if its changed since they switched *their* isp, but they did have one of those 100Mbit connections to each tower. now they have ATT.

#18 Wed, 25 Nov 2009 - 23:18 68kMLA

...but its better than my old dialup so im not complaining

#19 Wed, 25 Nov 2009 - 23:22 68kMLA

Oh and i forgot to mention that it's very unreliable... pingtest gives me an F and 5-10% of the time the connections down

I cant wait till Insight, Sigicom, SBC, Comcast, Insight or anyone else run wires out here!

I miss my old top-of-the-line cable connection from when I lived IN Evansville instead of right outside of it...

#20 Wed, 25 Nov 2009 - 23:26 68kMLA

...but its better than my old dialup so im not complaining

It's better than what I've got: I have to leave my home and drive 25 miles into town when I want to go online.

#21 Thu, 26 Nov 2009 - 00:27 68kMLA

You should AT LEAST get dial-up.

8-o

#22 Thu, 26 Nov 2009 - 00:44 68kMLA

or a Ham license and packet radio hehe