Macintosh IISI on the net!

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This has been a long process, but has been having some great progress! I was given a Macintosh IISI, and it came with a network card in it, so logically I wanted to hook it up to the Internet, but here is the catch, it has no web browser, so what can I do to get one on it? Well, I have been finding the answer, and now I'm ready to start sharing the process!!!

To start here is what I have to work with. I have the Mac, and I can use floppys in it. I have good floppys to use, and a USB floppy drive for my computer. A down side to this is that the only other computers I have are all Windows PCS, I can and have installed *nix distorts on them to work with other programs, but I have had very little success with that, and recently I have had success with the windows machines. On the Mac I have system 7.5 and TCP support which is crucial.

Skip two years of failed attempts at getting anything on the beast, and leaving it for a time then trying again. I have finally gotten it to do something. To clarify a but on the situation, I have tried this exact method before, and not succeeded. But this time it worked! I have my speculations for what I did right this time.

So here we go, this is what I did to get part of the way to a web browser on my Mac.

First, I looked around the Mac to make sure that there was no way to get to the terminal as I have previously discovered. Once I varified that, I thought about making a script,  so I messed around with that feature, but got no where since it still didn't do networking. I then formatted a floppy on to Mac to a dos format, put it in my windows computer and put fetch3.0.hqx on it, I have tried to extract hqx files on my PC and failed many times, but my Mac has StuffIt extractor on it luckily, so I thought I would try that program to extract it (I have tried this before, but I thought I would again). I extracted it into a folder for fetch on the hard drive, and surprisingly it worked! I was very excited that it did! After that I was able to run fetch, an FTP program, and I was super pleased since I have never gotten this far before.

I have had the Mac on the network at home before and pinged it from another computer, but I didn't have fetch then. So my next step is to redo that, and with fetch, hopefully get it into a FTP server. I have one I will try, but if it doesn't work, I have another plan for a local one.

Keep checking for updates, this is getting somewhere!






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