YATYRD (was: PalmOS no more? :(

[Teo Zenios]

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From: "Scott Stevens" <chenmel at earthlink.net>
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Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2005 12:05 AM
Subject: Re: YATYRD (was: PalmOS no more? :(


> Right now I am trawling around the net on a Quadra 650, to see what is
> possible and what's not.  Some interesting surprises I am finding.  The
> 'Low End Mac' website crashes when you try to go there on a Quadra 650
> using Netscape 4.  Huh?  Internet Explorer 4.01 is still available for
> Mac 68k if you trawl around enough looking for it.  (don't bother
> looking at Microsoft)
>
> Not as interesting as the time I installed Windows NT for PowerPC on an
> RS/6000 box and trawled around trying to find anything AT ALL on the net
> that it would run.  (You're stuck with the Internet Explorer 2.0 that
> comes built into NT, which _won't_ _even_ _load_ _www.microsoft.com_
> _anymore._

Low End Mac went from talking about the virtues of 68K Macs one day to
drooling over OSX and G4/G5 era machines the next, I rarely bother visiting
the site anymore and I used to check it out every week a few years ago.

Anyway the fastest 68K Mac I have is a Quadra 950 with a NewerTech 68040/50
CPU upgrade (has built in 128K cache also) and browsing the newer websites
is still fairly slow (but much faster then the stock 33Mhz chip) and prone
to crashing (probably a browser issue causing crashing). Even with the
issues you can still get on the net for drivers, reviews, ebay, etc on that
machine which is all I need it to do on the internet.