Hello Sean, I got an old Classic up and running a couple of years back and had the same problems. The OS and the TCP/IP stuff all worked fine but I could not find a modern browser that would work. System 7.x+ was far too slow to be useful on that machine so I could not use that.
AFAIK there are no "modern" WWW browsers available on System 6. The CPU overhead on rendering current pages is pretty big too and the little Plus will probably chug a heck of a lot. As for other utilities, email I found that an old copy of Eudora (I think version 1.3.1) worked well and for a terminal app I found that MacTerminal behaved correctly. That's listed on System 6 Heaven. Sorry my news is not positive but I wanted you to avoid going through the same lengthy searches that I did. Good luck, Paul On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 19:30:36 +0100, Sean Billings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I have recently finished restoring my Mac Plus, and I have a shiny new > version of 6.08 installed onto an HD20SC hard disk, I installed MacTCP and > MacPPP to connect it to my network, everything has gone fine and I can > confirm that MacTCP and PPP work fine on system 6. I must admit to being > really impressed with the speed of system 6 and would really like to keep > using it, but the problem is the apps! According to System 6 heaven the > web browser to use is MacWWW (Samba) which I downloaded and installed, but > it isn't really suitable for modern internet usage as it doesn't seem to > support hardly any standards, for example you can't load google which I can > using MacWeb and also doesn't seem to support HTTP 1.1 TBH it seems to be > HTTP 0.9! Ok so next step was telnet, NCSA telnet 2.6 works reasonably > well, but I seem to have some problems especially the lack of a Control key > (I know this is the keyboards fault). Fetch 3.0.3 works to a degree but I > get a system error if I do a directory refresh. And finally I though ok > I'll try a newsreader so Sys 6 heaven again suggests The-news-240.hqx > although the link was no longer valid I did find a download but I can't > seem to get this app working either. > > So really I would like to know from any fellow system 6 users what apps do > you recommend for the following: > > www? > nntp news client? > and, > Telnet? > > Thank you. > > Regards Sean. > -- > Classic Computing Pages: > http://www.megadon.co.uk/syrinx/ > > -- > Compact Macs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/>. > > Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> > > Compact Macs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/compact.shtml> > --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; > Send list messages to: <mailto:compact.macs@mail.maclaunch.com> > To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Archive:<http://www.mail-archive.com/compact.macs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> > > --------------------------------------------------------------- > iPod Accessories for Less > at 1-800-iPOD.COM > Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal > www.1800ipod.com > --------------------------------------------------------------- > -- Paul Voller Try http://vollerama.com/blog "Smokey, this is not 'Nam this is bowling. There are rules." -- Compact Macs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/>. Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Compact Macs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/compact.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:compact.macs@mail.maclaunch.com> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive:<http://www.mail-archive.com/compact.macs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
