Re: Browser suggestions for Quadra 605?

[wbdesnoy@acs2.acs.ucalgary.ca (Byron Desnoyers Winmill)]

Ernest (ernestls@home.com) wrote:
: Hey, I just picked up a Quadra 605 with 32megs of RAM to put my IIe card in,
: and I'm planning to link it to my @home connection. I've added a ProDos
: partition that I'll use to store downloaded A2 disk images on. The only
: annoying part is that I can't use the Ethernet card and the IIe card at the
: same time since there is only one slot. Even so, I'm hoping that this set up
: will work better than the cumbersome file transfer method between my PC and
: IIe.

: Does anyone have any suggestions on which net browser I should use on the
: 605? I haven't touched a Mac since 1996 so I'm open to suggestions.

I would suggest Netscape 2 or 3, since they will provide the least hassle
while defining Apple II file types.  Use iCab if you want something which
is reasonably modern, but it needs a third party extension (Internet Config)
to handle file types.  Most newer browsers will not run on your new Mac
(Netscape 4.05, and later, wants (the non-free System 7.6; after 4.5, IE was
PPC only -- particularly troublesome since Microsoft won't distribute old
versions).

Granted, if you are just transfering disk images, it may be easier to use
ADT (or MacADT).  In combination with IIe (an emulator), you won't have to
swap out that ethernet card.

Byron.