Re: new to the list

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If your mac have a ethernet network card, it's easy as configuring the 
tcp/ip control panel with a ip and the ip of the router, also the dns. If 
you don't have a network card on your mac (but still it have pci slots) you 
could take any realtek 8139 card, download the driver for macos 8.1 - 9.1 
from realtek website and then you are ready to surf the web.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Norbert van Bemmel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Vintage Macs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, October 18, 2004 6:08 PM
Subject: Re: new to the list


>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.

Can the PC's do Apple Talk? I'm afraid your Mac is too slow to be a 
fileserver.

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