The Macintosh
Plus
My
Emailing Mac
(Archived from Jeff Garrison's site)
My Macintosh
Plus has 4MB of RAM, an 800kb capacity internal floppy drive, a
keyboard with extended keypad, and the DB9 nine-pin mouse. Mine is
the Platinum variety, a greyish color I prefer over the beige. In
front of it is the homemade email floppy.
At the left is
the newer, external 800k floppy drive that I like over the noisier,
smaller-capacity rounded 400k drives. On top of the drive at left
sits the Global Village Mercury external modem I use to email
with.
The second disk (not
pictured) has the Eudora 1.3.1 email program that works with this
version of machine. Here's how the screens look, and the list of
software parts I included to make this Mac Email:
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a
System 6.0.7 Boot Folder with system, finder, sound, (Eudora 1.3.1 makes a two-toned, three-note beep when mail is received)
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general settings control panel
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configPPP v2.0.1
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TCP/IP
from System 7.5 v 2.0.6
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The ppp 2.0.1 extension
Soon, there may
be nowhere to do this, as Internet Service Providers no longer
provide support for machines this old. For those of you who are able,
I strongly recommend you put a Mac Plus to the email test. There is
nothing more satisfying, I can promise you, than technology so good,
that even this old it does modern-day tasks like emailing. The added
feeling that it's being done without a hard drive creates a joy
that's hard to describe. And a quiet that's easy to get used to.
This is another in a
series of projects-in-web-pages I bring to you to help keep old Macs
alive and useful. Do your part. My Motto:"Finding New Uses For Old
Macs Is What I'm All About."
comments?
email me
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the "Toaster"
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the Boombox
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Elegant External
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Floppy Driven Macs
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They Might Be Giants
simplified for access by older
computers