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Glenn Chase · Posted: Sun Jul 25, 2004 1:59 pm Post subject: Color Classic web server

I finally got around to putting my treasured Macintosh Color Classic to work - I set it up as a web server! Yes, this 11 year old Mac with a 16 MHz 68030 processor is cheerfully serving web pages to the world using free MacHTTP software.

With it's 10 MB of RAM and Open Transport networking built into Mac OS 7.6.1 it was actually very quick and easy to do. The folks who make web servers out of Mac Pluses and Mac SE's have to work much harder to get their machines serving with pages with just 4 MB of RAM to work with and no built in network interface.

- The Mac Plus Web Server - this web server runs on two floppy disks!
- The Mac SE web server

Not much to see on the Color Classic web server other than the home page right now, but I will be adding pictures of it in action and there is a tracker installed to keep a log of visitors.

Have a look! http://colorclassic.dyndns.org/

Glenn

jazzimus · Posted: Mon Jul 26, 2004 6:41 am Post subject: Re: Color Classic web server

Mark Millard · Posted: Mon Jul 26, 2004 8:43 am Post subject:

Way to go!

Richard Cardona · Posted: Mon Jul 26, 2004 8:50 am Post subject:

Glenn Chase · Posted: Mon Jul 26, 2004 9:49 am Post subject: Color Classic ethernet

Richard Cardona · Posted: Mon Jul 26, 2004 10:08 am Post subject:

OK that had me puzzled Question

I knew the Color Classic didn't have a NuBus slot, so you have an LC PDS-to-NuBus adapter or is that ethernet card specifically for the LC/CC?

Glenn Chase · Posted: Mon Jul 26, 2004 1:45 pm Post subject:

No adapter involved, just a card that is designed to fit the special PDS slot in LC type Macs. They run about 6 bucks on ebay nowadays.

Glenn

dmccoy26 · Joined: 21 Oct 2003 Posts: 9 Location: Austin TX

That is really cool. I am currently using my color classic as a print spooler for my laser printer. It's specs include RJ-45 ethernet card (3MB i think), 48MB ram and a 3GB HD.

I do have about 6 more Ethernet cards that will fit a color classic or the preforma series system. Some that use AAUI -> RJ-45 adapters. If anyone is interest in purchasing one, please let me know.
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Glenn Chase

I added a new page to my Color Classic web server site which explains the motivation for doing this, and how I was able to get the necessary software installed and serving web pages within about 30 minutes:

http://colorclassic.dyndns.org/story.html

Glenn

Glenn Chase

Woo hoo! Fame has arrived for my Color Classic Web Server. Mighty Google has discovered it! Daily traffic might reach double digits anytime now!

Glenn

Neato · Joined: 09 Nov 2004 Posts: 2

I’ve also set up my Colour Classic as a server. I’ve had it since 1995 and couldn’t bring myself to throw it away/ sell it/ whatever. I upgraded it to the “Mystic” configuration in 2003 with the 640x480 screen size. It now operates in my network as a print server/local talk bridge for my laser printer with Appleshare 4.0.2 and also serves up a few files. Next project is to stick a larger HD in it and replace the broken Floppy drive. http://212.159.68.77

Glenn Chase · Posted: Tue Nov 09, 2004 9:41 am Post subject: Color Classic web servers unite!

Hey that's an awesome web server! We should start a movement to get all of the remaining Color Classics in the world repurposed as web servers to demonstrate the longevity of Classic Macs.

My CC looks like a slacker compared to yours which is also being a file server and print server!

Glenn

Neato · Joined: 09 Nov 2004 Posts: 2

Heyo, it's definitely NOT over worked! I don't print that often!

Glenn Chase · Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2005 10:41 pm Post subject: 68k web server list

I noticed a lot of visits to my Color Classic web server were coming from one place, so I took a moment to check it out and found that the 68k Macintosh Web Server list has really taken off!

Perusing the list you'll find web servers on machines well over a decade old, including "Elsie", a Mac LC that's running Apache and PHP on NetBSD!

Glenn

Glenn Chase

It was exactly a year ago today that I put the Color Classic web server online, so I wished it a happy birthday and checked the server stats, which indicate an average of 100 people a month stop by, and over half of them are Windows users! The stats also credit the 68k Macintosh Web Server Directory as generating the most "referrals." I've always loved the introductory statement to their list: