Yes, pico was the first shell-based text editor I used back then.
These days, when I'm on a command line, I use vim for editing.
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Load MacRumors on your oldest Mac
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Yes, pico was the first shell-based text editor I used back then.
These days, when I'm on a command line, I use vim for editing.
did you post that screenshot to this thread.... on the actual powerbook 500 itself???!
Site loading need minutes, so no^^
I think the upload of the picture with classilla will need over ten minutes excluded the crashes of the browser because of lack of memory.
The biggest problem is the maximum of 40 MB RAM.
I have tested on a 9600 (more memory) with the the same browser. Login is possible but on macrumors you can't post, because the text field is not loading.
In the german macuser.de forum i can login, post and create threads.
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I couldn’t help but try to load it up on my Mac plus😜 It’s been out of commission for a couple years, so first I had to resurrect the HD
Today, I got it booted back up, and online, but thanks to the whole “let’s encrypt everything” trend all I got when I loaded MacRumors was a error page from cloudflare😞
I did find a little Easter egg on lowendmac.com though.
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But I just couldn’t stop there. So I cheated😬
I used my 2009 Mac mini server and loaded MR in Safari, and took a screenshot. I then converted the file to a dithered monochrome .gif, and hosted it on said Mac mini using plain ol’ http, and loaded that site on the plus😅
Today, I got it booted back up, and online, but thanks to the whole “let’s encrypt everything” trend all I got when I loaded MacRumors was a error page from cloudflare😞
I did find a little Easter egg on lowendmac.com though.
But I just couldn’t stop there. So I cheated😬
I used my 2009 Mac mini server and loaded MR in Safari, and took a screenshot. I then converted the file to a dithered monochrome .gif, and hosted it on said Mac mini using plain ol’ http, and loaded that site on the plus😅
You could give Web Rendering Proxy a try
We really need to give that a second look... It's game-changing stuff.
lets try loading modern gmail and macrumors on the old 68k Mac plus!
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When I first created this thread, I was expecting beige G3s, clamshells, and various other late 90s macs. I couldn't prepare to see macrumors loaded up on a 1994 PowerBook 500. Or all the other antique mid 90s pre G3 Macs. But this, truly overdoes everything, seeing macrumors on a mid 80s 68k. We all commend you!
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Give us a challenge and we will freak out!
"Load MacRumors on your oldest Mac" was the message, so i personaly dont see a problem by using a Web Rendering Proxy.
The Powerbook 500 PPC is my oldest Mac, so let me see your old babes loading macrumors ?
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Exactly as you said, Web Rendering proxy technically isn't cheating. As long as the machine is doing the work to load or display it.Give us a challenge and we will freak out!
"Load MacRumors on your oldest Mac" was the message, so i personaly dont see a problem by using a Web Rendering Proxy.
The Powerbook 500 PPC is my oldest Mac, so let me see your old babes loading macrumors ?
That means we can bring the modern web back to system 6,7 and Mac OS 8 and 9.
Had 10.4.11 on it, but couldn't get mr to load. Put 9.2.2 and used Classilla to get it working lol. Now I have to figure out how I'll get 10.4.11 back on there tomorrow. lol
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Is that a 600mhz snow like I have? And to get most websites to load on 10.4.11, you'll need to get a modern browser such as tenfourfox or arctic fox, although I recommend iceweaselppc. It's a modified version of tenfourfox browser and is faster on our older G3s.Had 10.4.11 on it, but couldn't get mr to load. Put 9.2.2 and used Classilla to get it working lol. Now I have to figure out how I'll get 10.4.11 back on there tomorrow. lol
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Try copying the file over to the iMac through usb as safari would be useless for downloading anything.
I’ve been looking locally for a mostly-dead 600 or 700MHz Snow, Graphite, or patterned iMac with the very optimistic hope of salvaging the CPU and possibly, eventually, moving that CPU to the logic board of my clamshell iBook.
Why not just do a G4 upgrade? It's been done before (check YouTube) and by installing a G4 chip, you can even get leopard.. On a clamshell.I’ve been looking locally for a mostly-dead 600 or 700MHz Snow, Graphite, or patterned iMac with the very optimistic hope of salvaging the CPU and possibly, eventually, moving that CPU to the logic board of my clamshell iBook.
Nope, that only works on the Rev. A and Rev. B clamshell iBooks, which used a completely different version of the PPC750 chip than the Rev. C, which were equipped with the PPC750CX/CXe (which is what I have).
The posted examples you’ve seen of iBook clamshells running on a G4 CPU (by folks like @LightBulbFun) were on the earlier architecture. The 600/700MHz iMacs of 2001 use the CX/CXe architecture, meaning the fastest clock speed available would be, in theory, a 700MHz G3 (PPC750CXe).
Yep, that's it. Only has 128MB ram though. I bought an extra stick, was supposed to be a 512MB PC133 stick. So, here's the situation with that lol. Packaging shows it to be a 1GB stick, sticker on it says it's 512MB, and system info shows it as 256MB lol.
Tiger on 128mb of ram? That's gotta have been painful. tiger barely runs with 256mb of ram on my 400mhz iMac.
384mb of ram will still be insufficient for tiger and web browsing unfortunately, but great for os9.
I need to figure out how to have this 512MB register properly.
OWC says it's compatible.
Talked with OWC and they are sending a new 512MB stick out, no charge. So we'll see how it goes mid week coming.
So we'll see how it goes mid week coming.