Engineer connects his 27-year-old Macintosh Plus to the Internet

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An engineer named Jeff Keacher has connected his 27-year-old Macintosh Plus to the Internet. Keacher used a Raspberry Pi to do the heavy lifting, plus some serial adapters and voltage converters to connect it to the Macintosh’s serial port. 

 

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Engineer Jeff Keacher says his first “real” computer was a Macintosh Plus. Now 27-years-old, the device has an 8 MHz processor, 4MB of RAM, and a 512×342 resolution 1-bit screen. Keacher decided he wanted to use it to surf the Web.

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