I think the serial port hard drive would be easier to find than the 3rd party ram upgrade. What if you dropped down to a lower system like 3 or 4? I think the recommended system for a 512 is like 3.2? MacTCP wouldn't work with that would it nor would WebStar would it?
I saw an Atari 800 as a web server, however I think the IP was on an outside device and when hit, the Atari would just squirt out a few lines of html and that was about all it could do with 48k.
I'm just wondering if this was a solvable problem.
Thomas
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At 5:12 PM -0500 3/3/05, Thomas Burns wrote:My first question is, can you put a web server on a Mac 512k/e? I was wondering if you could use system 6.0.8 and run the connection via AppleTalk bridge? Would the limiting factor be the memory?
Wow. I guess you could shoehorn System 6.0.8 plus MacTCP onto an 800K floppy, but what apps or extensions would provide the actual web sharing? You wouldn't get WebStar on the same floppy. A 512k/e with an extra (external) floppy drive just conceivably might allow you to run WebStar, if there's a version of WebStar that would run in what's left of 512K RAM after System 6 including TCP are loaded into RAM... but then, umm, exactly what files would you be sharing up over the web, your own System Folder?
Unless you had one of those ancient serial-port hard disks, then you could put HTML files on it.
That would be one seriously sluggish web site, though... TCP over LocalTalk bridge.
It would be downright fantastic for sheer geekiness to do it, but I'm guessing the sticking point is the RAM. I seem to recall one of those "Get your Classic System 6 Mac on the Internet" sites where the challenge of getting a 512k/e online was marked "unsolved but I'm still trying". It may be that System 6 and MacTCP together leave you with very little left over to run anything in.
My LC is sitting here next to me...
::switches KVM switch::
I'm running MultiFinder and more than a few extensions in addition to MacTCP, but System 6.0.8 is eating 2914 K plus 160 K for Finder. You could rename WebStar to "Finder" and set the file type and creator to that of Finder's and run a Finderless web server, that'll save you some K. But 512 is a very small space to work in.
Now, of course, if you've got your hands on one of those incredibly rare 3rd-party RAM upgrades for the 512k/e (the ones that you had to clip and solder) as well as a serial hard disk, all bets are off ;)
My second question is, what is the pds slot on a LaserWriter IIg motherboard for? I tried some research on the web about anything fitting in there, but I couldnt come up with anything. Were there plans at one time to have an accelerator for it?
Thanks,
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