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In article <sm502u$nbh$2@dont-email.me>,
denodster@gmail.com (denodster) wrote:

Posting on my LC 475 running Internews. This is my first time on Usenet
and I'm thrilled to find this group. Running system 7.6.1 and MacIP via
an old cisco router. It's been a fun project and I'm thrilled to get to
use it like this.

What kind of hardware are you all running? and how did you get it
online?

I'm using MT-Newswatcher 2.4.4 on my Mac IIci. As far as I know, it's
the last version for 68k Macintoshes. It works really nice! The IIci
sports 32 MB RAM (who'd ever need that much RAM anyway, right?)

Recently invested into a PiSCSI (RaSCSI) add-on that provides my IIci
with an internet connection and a virtual CD drive by sacrificing an old Raspberry Pi I had left.

I'm really excited how well the IIci and Usenet communicate together.
Feels natural.
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Sebastian P. <info@cornica.org> wrote:

In article <sm502u$nbh$2@dont-email.me>,
denodster@gmail.com (denodster) wrote:

Posting on my LC 475 running Internews. This is my first time on Usenet
and I'm thrilled to find this group. Running system 7.6.1 and MacIP via
an old cisco router. It's been a fun project and I'm thrilled to get to
use it like this.

What kind of hardware are you all running? and how did you get it
online?

I'm using MT-Newswatcher 2.4.4 on my Mac IIci. As far as I know, it's
the last version for 68k Macintoshes. It works really nice! The IIci
sports 32 MB RAM (who'd ever need that much RAM anyway, right?)

Recently invested into a PiSCSI (RaSCSI) add-on that provides my IIci
with an internet connection and a virtual CD drive by sacrificing an old Raspberry Pi I had left.

I'm really excited how well the IIci and Usenet communicate together.
Feels natural.

I'm currently using a G3 with OS 8.6 and MacSOUP 2.4.6 . So fast and user-friendly that I can't think of any improvements it needs.
--
~ Liz Tuddenham ~
(Remove the ".invalid"s and add ".co.uk" to reply)
www.poppyrecords.co.uk
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In article <info-ACF699.13284228092023@nntp-new.eternal-september.org>, "Sebastian P." <info@cornica.org> wrote:

In article <sm502u$nbh$2@dont-email.me>,
denodster@gmail.com (denodster) wrote:

Posting on my LC 475 running Internews. This is my first time on Usenet
and I'm thrilled to find this group. Running system 7.6.1 and MacIP via
an old cisco router. It's been a fun project and I'm thrilled to get to
use it like this.

What kind of hardware are you all running? and how did you get it
online?

I'm using MT-Newswatcher 2.4.4 on my Mac IIci. As far as I know, it's
the last version for 68k Macintoshes. It works really nice! The IIci
sports 32 MB RAM (who'd ever need that much RAM anyway, right?)

Recently invested into a PiSCSI (RaSCSI) add-on that provides my IIci
with an internet connection and a virtual CD drive by sacrificing an old Raspberry Pi I had left.

I'm really excited how well the IIci and Usenet communicate together.
Feels natural.

You're right, Newswatcher is a much better experience, using that now.
I connect using a Farallon Etherwave serial to ethernet appletalk bridge.
It's a pretty nifty peice of hardware. Saves my PDS Slot for other
nonsense like a IIe card.
--- Synchronet 3.20a-Linux NewsLink 1.114

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In article <denodster-1712230339400001@192.168.1.200>, Denodster <denodster@gmail.com> wrote:

In article <info-ACF699.13284228092023@nntp-new.eternal-september.org>, "Sebastian P." <info@cornica.org> wrote:

In article <sm502u$nbh$2@dont-email.me>,
denodster@gmail.com (denodster) wrote:

Posting on my LC 475 running Internews. This is my first time on Usenet and I'm thrilled to find this group. Running system 7.6.1 and MacIP via an old cisco router. It's been a fun project and I'm thrilled to get to use it like this.

What kind of hardware are you all running? and how did you get it
online?

I'm using MT-Newswatcher 2.4.4 on my Mac IIci. As far as I know, it's
the last version for 68k Macintoshes. It works really nice! The IIci sports 32 MB RAM (who'd ever need that much RAM anyway, right?)

Recently invested into a PiSCSI (RaSCSI) add-on that provides my IIci
with an internet connection and a virtual CD drive by sacrificing an old Raspberry Pi I had left.

I'm really excited how well the IIci and Usenet communicate together. Feels natural.

You're right, Newswatcher is a much better experience, using that now.
I connect using a Farallon Etherwave serial to ethernet appletalk bridge. It's a pretty nifty peice of hardware. Saves my PDS Slot for other
nonsense like a IIe card.

I'm using YA-NewsWatcher, Version 4.2.5, on my PowerMac G4 MDD running
OS9.

I have been using Thoth recently, too, which was the evolution of
YA-NW, and also developed by Brian Clark. I've seen people in the past
talk about Thoth as the apotheosis of Mac newsreader software and it is hellishly fully-featured, but it's pretty fiddly. That said, I was
getting used to it and it was starting to feel quite intuitive but a
couple of weeks ago I had a major system collapse on this machine,
massive instability and kernel panics all over the damn place. I
couldn't troubleshoot it easily so I simply wiped the drive and started
again, much less stressful (well, if you ignore the whole headache of
trying to install bootable OS9 on this machine without a OSX partition,
but that's a saga for another day!).

I installed Thoth again but it's asking for registration and I have no
clue where I got the serial from last time... So, I figured I'd try
YA-NW instead as I used this a few years ago and... so far so impressed
tbh! It's a nice piece of software, feels simpler than Thoth by a long
way, and runs like lightning on this machine!
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