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Re: Is it worth keeping 1st Power Macs going? [message #360324] Sat, 30 December 2017 00:22
Gabriel Rezende is currently offline  Gabriel Rezende
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It's almost working.

The server it's ready. A bridge between Sierra and System 7, Mac 8, 9 with
Label support and Dropbox backup, without using a Windows protocol, no
third-apps (no Connectix DoubleTalk), just a Linux server and *netatalk*.






The next step is to run on a raspiberry pi and provide USB storage support
via server.​

On Sun, Dec 24, 2017 at 12:37 AM, Gabriel Rezende <g@brielrezen.de> wrote:

> Hi Dan, depends I guess. Do you have a project or something?
>
> ​About a month ago I​
> bought a PowerMac 6230CD
> ​.
>
> ​
>
> A bought a ethernet card, and just wanna write stuff and have a cloud
> backup (using a raspberrypi network on wifi), and use a USB hub on
> raspberrypi and share the portable storage to the network. I will "hide"
> the raspberrypi inside the machine, if possible.
>
> So, my plan is a 22-year-old Mac with wifi and USB (data storage).
> ​ 😁​
>
> ​I think it's worth it, hehe.
>
> Gabriel.​
>
>
> On Sat, Dec 23, 2017 at 7:23 PM, Dan Knight, LowEndMac.com <
> lowenddan@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> It's been years since the last posting to this group. I would like to get
>> feedback: Is it worthwhile keeping 1st Power Macs running or has it run its
>> course?
>>
>> Daniel Knight, listmom
>>
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