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Posted in classic hacks, Mac Hacks Tagged Mac Plus, macintosh, raspberry pi, retrocomputing Post navigation It isn’t fast by any means – in the video below, it takes about five minutes to pull up the front page of Hacker News – but it is a 27-year-old computer on the Internet.
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The end result is a Mac Plus with 4 Megabytes of RAM on the Internet, able to pull up Wikipedia and Hacker News. To fix this issue, ’s friend came up with a Python script using Requests, Beautiful Soup, and Flask to strip out all the Web 2.0 cruft, handle the cookies, and to get rid of SSL. This means modern websites (except, of course, the Hackaday retro edition) simply won’t render properly. HTTPS hadn’t been invented until 1994, cookies are just a pain, and CSS is right out.
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The Pi does the heavy lifting, and a handful of serial adapters and voltage converters turns the Pi into something that can talk to the Plus’ serial port.Įven with the MacTCP stack and the MacWeb browser, there are still some things this ancient computer couldn’t do. Lacking either of those pieces of hardware, decided to use a Raspberry Pi. For a somewhat slower connections, a PowerPC mac can be used as an Ethernet to Localtalk (the Macintosh serial port networking protocol) bridge. The best, but most expensive, is a SCSI to Ethernet computer. It was his first ‘real’ computer, and like those guys that take Model A Fords out for a Sunday drive, decided to put this old box on the Internet.Ī Plus has a few options to get on the Internet.

Has a Mac Plus, an 8 MHz computer with 4 MB of RAM and a 512×342 1-bit screen.
