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Mac Plus surfing the web

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Published on Sep 12, 2013

Surfing the web (Wikipedia and Hacker News) using a 27-year-old Macintosh Plus.

Full story: http://www.keacher.com/1216/how-i-int...

Manufactured 1986
8MHz MC68000 CPU
4 MB RAM
100 MB Zip drive as storage
System 7.0
MacWeb v2.0 browser (circa 1996, not 1994 as shown in the video)

Filmed September 2013

Here's a quick summary of how it was done:
MacWeb, to MacTCP, to MacPPP, to the serial port, to a level shifter, to a Raspberry Pi (running SLIRP and a custom proxy written with Python, Flask, and Beautiful Soup), to ethernet, to a router, to a cable modem, and off to the internet

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