540c Server

Wild stuff in a low tech way. Makes you wanna dust off some of that old gear, ALMOST

A grand machine currently running system 8.1, booting of a 256mb PCMCIA memory card for slient operation when working as a web server but also boots to system 7.5 when i need to do other stuff. Why the duel boot? well with 12mb of ram Os8 can be a bit demanding, but it has bits i like. If stability becomes an issue due to the ram i may change it about.

The pages are a botch job based on the files that come with personal web sharing in Os8 particularly the personal files for Ellen Kaiser.
I am using MacHTTP 2.6 to serve the pages but to start i was using os8's personal web sharing, so it did kinda look like this for a bit.

Anyway as said 12mb ram, 500mb hard disk and a 33 MHz 68LC040 CPU. It was important that i do this with a 68k Mac, i could have easily bought a Powerbook 1400 or a 5300 to do the work, but the smaller the specs the more fun it is.

So an underpowered Apple laptop from 1994 is my web server. Oh yes, i forgot, it is serving this from a cupboard using WiFi, connecting to my router which is under my bed. Which for that matter is also where the FTP server is should you be inclined to sample its goods.