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Comment Re:68 MB (Score 2) 66

by Huxley_Dunsany (#59078760) Attached to: Vintage 30-Year-Old Mac Resurrected As a Web Server

I think 68 MB is a typo, 64MB makes sense. But you could upgrade the SE/30 to 128MB RAM if you also replaced the ROM SIMM with one from a Mac IIsi.

Hi! This is my Mac being referenced in the original post. It really does show 68megs of RAM in the "About This Mac..." box. I'm out of town right now (which is why my site went offline just as this post hit the front page, sigh) and can't double-check, but I think the odd RAM count is a side-effect of the custom ROM I've installed in the machine. I'm using a "Mac ROM-inator II" from Big Mess o' Wires. This ROM upgrade does a bunch of cool stuff - custom startup sound, skips the RAM test on power-up (major reboot time-savings), replaces the "Happy Mac" startup icon with a cute pirate guy, makes the machine "32-bit clean," etc. One of the neat features is a writable 4mb RAM disk so the ROM can serve as a boot device in a pinch, and when it's not the boot device, I think the system "sees" that space as additional RAM (maybe). Anyway, thanks for checking this out - sorry I can't reboot the Mac and get the site back online for a few days! Huxley

Comment Sorry guys! (Score 5, Informative) 66

by Huxley_Dunsany (#59077212) Attached to: Vintage 30-Year-Old Mac Resurrected As a Web Server
Oh, of *course* the first time I ever make the front page of Slashdot (after 20 years of being a reader!), I've just landed on an out-of-state work trip, and thus cannot reboot my old Mac and bring it back online. Really sorry everyone! I swear the site was up and responding well a few days ago when I submitted this, and will be again when I get home again later this week.

Submission + - 30-year-old Mac resurrected as a web server (rhyal.com)

Submitted by Huxley_Dunsany
Huxley_Dunsany writes: After much work rebuilding and upgrading it, my Macintosh SE/30 from 1989 is now connected via Ethernet to the Web, and is hosting a simple website and old-style "guestbook." The site has been online for a few days (other than semi-frequent reboots of the system when it gets overloaded with requests), and has served nearly 20,000 visitors. For a machine with a 16MHz CPU and 68 megabytes of ram, it's held up remarkably well!

I'm basically inviting a "Slashdotting" of my old Mac, but I thought this project might bring a few smiles here. Enjoy!

Apple Orders 10 Million Tablets? 221

Posted by ScuttleMonkey from the pricepoint-better-be-right dept.
Arvisp writes "According to a blog post by former Google China president Kai-Fu Lee, Apple plans to produce nearly 10 million tablets in the still-unannounced product's first year. If Lee's blog post is to be believed, Apple plans to sell nearly twice as many tablets as it did iPhones in the product's first year."

Comment Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver (Score 1) 1120

by Huxley_Dunsany (#28853829) Attached to: Which Game Series Would You Reboot?
Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver was one of my favorite games from the PSX / Dreamcast era. Great (for the time) graphics, decent voice acting, and a compelling storyline were enough to hook me back then, and if the series could be reimagined with updated graphics and a darker "feel" (perhaps coming close to the vibe of the God of War series) for modern consoles, I'd be pretty happy.

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