📅 December 14, 2013     🕐 1 minute read

27-Year-Old Macintosh Plus Gets Connected To The Internet [video]

Rocking a 8 MHz CPU, 4 MB RAM, 50 MB hard drive, and 512 x 384 pixel black-and-white screen, engineer Jeff Keacher decided to connect his 27-year-old Macintosh Plus to the internet

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Probably hard to tell, but the picture above shows a Mac Plus (in a Mac 512k case) viewing its own Wikipedia page via the ancient MacWeb browser. Rocking a 8 MHz CPU, 4 MB RAM, 50 MB hard drive, and 512 x 384 pixel black-and-white screen, engineer Jeff Keacher decided to connect his 27-year-old Macintosh Plus to the internet using a Raspberry Pi, serial adapters and voltage converters. Jump over the break to check out the video and read the full story on Jeff’s blog.

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