Load MacRumors on your oldest Mac

[Appleuser201]

Just for fun, I’d like to see you all load the Macrumors homepage on your oldest Mac, maybe even a beige powermac.
I know some of you here own beige powermacs, and clamshell iBooks clocked even lower than any of my G3 Macs.

Here I’ve got it loaded (rather slowly but useable) on a late 1999 400mhz DV 256mb Ram iMac G3, grape.

 

[hardon]

Great thread!!

Mac G3 beige tower, 333mhz cpu, OS 9.

I could try this in OS X 10.1 but I have to leave suddenly.


OS 9.2.2 using IE not having it, no time to fettle this evening ☹

Finally managed on classilla, using Mac OS 9, not a slow as I thought, still life in the old girl yet ... : )

 

[Dronecatcher]

On my G3 iBook....and watching The Outer Limits at the same time

 

[z970]

On my G3 iBook....and watching The Outer Limits at the same time

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+1 for Opera Mini.

 

[TheShortTimer]

My oldest Mac is my 1999 Sawtooth but it's not set up at the moment. I'll post from that another time. Instead, I offer my second oldest Mac (2001 iBook G3) as the next best thing.

 

[B S Magnet]

Just for fun, I’d like to see you all load the Macrumors homepage on your oldest Mac, maybe even a beige powermac.
I know some of you here own beige powermacs, and clamshell iBooks clocked even lower than any of my G3 Macs.

Here I’ve got it loaded (rather slowly but useable) on a late 1999 400mhz DV 256mb Ram iMac G3, grape.

My avatar is the legacy beast here: a Rev C. key lime clamshell iBook G3/466 with an XGA display.

It certainly ain’t fast on MR, but hey. For science!

 

[Windreader]

Although my Indigo Clamshell would be a good candidate, here is my non-Firewire 366mhz Graphite iBook Clamshell. I don't really use it as much as the later model, though it really is a nice little unit that has served me well!

 

[Project Alice]

Ironically, I happen to be using my Pismo just for the fun of it and saw this post. Not my oldest or slowest mac; but I think it fits. Perhaps later I will get on here on one of my beige's.

 

[Appleuser201]

Ironically, I happen to be using my Pismo just for the fun of it and saw this post. Not my oldest or slowest mac; but I think it fits. Perhaps later I will get on here on one of my beige's.
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I always loved the sleek black design of the pismos, they were just so expensive when new.
We'd all love to see a good old beige load up the MacRumors site.

 

[Slix]

Yikes, my Power Mac 8600/300 is my oldest Mac... It's running Mac OS 8, and I've never even connected it to the internet! Might be an experiment for another time soon.

 

[MacFoxG4]

I think the oldest Mac I own that could load this site would be my PowerBook G3 PDQ if Classilla runs on 8.6?

 

[bunnspecial]

A couple of years ago, back when MR was still on Vbulletin, I use to regularly browse/post using my 9600/200MP with an unhealthy amount of ram(1.5gb) in OS 9 using Classilla.

I haven't actually tried recently, but I wouldn't be surprised if-with the latest round of updates-it's no longer possible to even load MR in Classilla.

If I had a good Tiger install on that computer, I expect it would be doable. It wouldn't be pleasant, but it would be doable. I have run Tiger on it, but not in a while.

Time permitting next week-after my exams are graded and entered-I might try on my 8600. It does run Tiger(I should get Leopard going) but also has a 700mhz G4(and 1gb of RAM). Realistically, you're probably not going to load MR on any computer these days unless you can run OS X. Practically speaking, whether stock or upgraded, that most likely means an 8500/9500 or newer. If you could coax OS X onto a 3400c you might get away with it(I'll defer to @LightBulbFun on that) but lack of RAM is going to be your enemy on that. With the big towers, if you don't mind throwing money at them, you can get more RAM than anyone can realistically need on a system that old.

 

[Dronecatcher]

Same iBook with OS9/Classilla...I honestly thought MacRumors couldn't be reached by it anymore?

 

[Project Alice]

Same iBook with OS9/Classilla...I honestly thought MacRumors couldn't be reached by it anymore?

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I haven't been able to access MR on classila for over a year. Did you do anything different?

 

[Dronecatcher]

I haven't been able to access MR on classila for over a year. Did you do anything different?

No, not at all - maybe the site is doing something different?

 

[philgxxd]

Maybe we have to be specific saying that it's possible to access the forum part not the main page.

 

[Dronecatcher]

Maybe we have to be specific saying that it's possible to access the forum part not the main page.

Never thought of that - I never visit the home page.

 

[bunnspecial]

Hmm, not sure I feel like firing up the 9600, but I'll try on a TiBook or Quicksilver here in a bit.

 

[philgxxd]

Never thought of that - I never visit the home page.

I was under the impression that maybe Project Alice is thinking you can access the MacRumors main page under Classilla from OS9.

 

[swamprock]

From my 233mhz Wallstreet PDQ running Tiger. For some odd reason, screen shots aren't working so I shot the entire machine with my iPhone-

 

[AphoticD]

Nice work @swamprock

Coming at us from 1999 is the Blueberry iBook G3. I've overclocked this one to 366MHz, maxed out the RAM at 544MB and replaced the spinner with an mSATA SSD. The iBook is powering along like a champ (on my rebuilt battery) with the latest TenFourFox FPR16.1 under 10.4.11 via Airport 802.11b.

Next up, hailing from 1998 is the Wallstreet Series II PDQ @ 233MHz with 384MB of RAM running TenFourFox in Tiger via XPostFacto with a 6GB HDD. Page loading and scrolling is slow, but not unbearable. Connecting over 10bT Ethernet.

Finally, dating back to 1997 and crawling it's way along the web is a PowerBook 1400cs/166Mhz with 40MB of RAM (64MB Virtual Memory) and the original 1.3GB HDD, running Mac OS 8.6 and connecting to MacRumors Forums using Classilla via a Buffalo ORiNOCO 802.11b WiFi 16-bit PC card. Although it finally connected, it took forever to get through all of the "Unable to connect" dialog boxes.

Not long after taking the photos, the PDQ had a kernel panic and froze on restart. I reset the PMU and PRAM, then it made a glass smashing sound on boot. I think the strain was too much! I'll try reseating the RAM and CPU card

 

[swamprock]

Nice work @swamprock

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Next up, hailing from 1998 is the Wallstreet Series II PDQ @ 233MHz with 384MB of RAM running TenFourFox in Tiger via XPostFacto with a 6GB HDD. Page loading and scrolling is slow, but not unbearable. Connecting over 10bT Ethernet.

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Not long after taking the photos, the PDQ had a kernel panic and froze on restart. I reset the PMU and PRAM, then it made a glass smashing sound on boot. I think the strain was too much! I'll try reseating the RAM and CPU card

Sounds like an overheat. I've had similar issues with my PDQ when it's pushed under Tiger. I added a little Arctic Silver under the heat cap, and a new thermal pad to the processor card cover, and haven't had any issues since. I've got Tiger running on the second larger partition (80gb hard drive) using XPF and the first OS 9 partition as a helper. This time, I've had no issues with syncing the partitions like I did in the past.

And of course, it's got your Jaguar ATI Rage driver tweak and 16-bit color

 

[B S Magnet]

From my 233mhz Wallstreet PDQ running Tiger. For some odd reason, screen shots aren't working so I shot the entire machine with my iPhone-

I feel like this may take the cake.

 

[z970]

It certainly ain’t fast on MR, but hey.

Page loading and scrolling is slow, but not unbearable.

PowerUOC may help.

 

[bunnspecial]

Anyone done it yet on a pre-G3 CPU?

I haven't made it to step 0 yet on my 9600, as the video card doesn't seem to be cooperating(I should probably try shuffling it to another slot-I've that slots can be a bit flaky in this computer).