The best machine I've found for bridging old-world Macs and current Macs (or PC's I guess) is the beige G3 PowerMac, since it runs OS9 that'll talk to the old Macs with serial, and also 10.4 which is easier to network with newer macs or PC's. I even have a wireless card in mine, so it just connects up to our wireless network, and I don't even need a crossover ethernet cable. Anyways, just a thought. I think you can get these pretty cheap at garage sales or in other second hand ways. Also the Powerbook 1400 is a good one also, since it has a serial port and you can get a PC card that adapts it to ethernet. But it won't run OSX at all, so connecting it to newer Macs or PC's is going to be harder, I couldn't get 7.5.5 and 10.5 talking...
Elliott (Formerly Cyrus) -------------------- Hobbittech.com Mac Specialist - Low Cost Mac Services in AZ On May 29, 2009, at 1:24 PM, Sterling wrote: > But maybe I still need a bridge machine or method to get stuff from > the internet onto these macs still... --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Vintage Macs group. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
