>Third question, does anyone have their old Macson a PC LAN? I've got a couple PCs >hooked up to DSL through a router. What can you do with an old Mac if you stick it on >a network like this? Can you use it as a fileserver for the PCs? > You can easily hook it up to the internet as well, and fire up all the vintage internet software you can find! I was surprised to find out that reading newsgroups and emailing went just as well on my IIci as on my 600 Mhz iMac. Telnet and FTP work very well too. Websurfing is a bit awkward because modern websites won't work with old versions of Netscape.
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