Comments on: Newton Web Server

By: Doug Augustyn

Doug Augustyn — Tue, 03 Oct 2006 08:52:31 +0000

welcome to year 2000. Anything newton has been around for a long time, face it. Why don’t you put some of Eckhart KÃ¶ppen’s newton stuff on hackaday? While we’re talking about installing software as being a hack, why not put me on here for installing Tiger Server on a supported machine. That’s Ã¼ber cool according to this standard.

By: markie

markie — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 21:20:23 +0000

>so if I have a computer that it can share a connection with, can it do some minor web browsing?

yes you can, if you make a serial connection and use the machine you connect to as a router... something like this:

http://www.0x1.org/d/stuff/newton/ppp/index.html

...or of course, you can make your Newton wireless :-)

In case of an eMate, don't expect too much of the webbrowsing, it's possible with Newt's Scape but it's still a 25MHz machine. You could compare it with a Palm III or V but in a bigger package with a keyboard and with a bigger screen. Personally I prefer to use it as a terminal. I gave an eMate away to someone who uses it to type notes and such for hours and hours on an end (with a new made batterypack you can get 24+ hours of performance out of a fully charged eMate) and email it to himself when he's done.

By: Doctor Colu

Doctor Colu — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 19:45:13 +0000

Atari 8-bits are being used as servers too, but that for another hack-A-Day.

Yeh I still have my Newtons, though I must admit I have kinda gotten away from the need for having a computer in my hand at all times. Nowdays I can survive between my Mac at home and my Dell at work. :) But I did try the Newton webserver for a while, and found it fairly fun. As you can see in the picture on my link the Newton has a very small footprint and takes up little power. Great device.

By: mastershake916

mastershake916 — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 18:03:49 +0000

Hey mark, I’m interested in the emate, so if I have a computer that it can share a connection with, can it do some minor web browsing?

By: jerrod

jerrod — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 17:16:15 +0000

I kinda feel sorry fr the poor newton, shot down by
millions of hits
all at the same time, from rss reader auto up dating, by the way this
was digged too. there should be a law against DOSing a home connection
like that, the poor guy problem has his isp on the phone yellling at
him for hosting a web site, and violating his contract. i know it is
cool and all to be on hackaday, but i might be a alittle upset if
woke up and my connection was down and my server was fried.
maybe next time somthing like this is posted you could hav someone mirror it? or link to google's cache of the site? or may be just hold off on the direct link for a day or 2?

By: jerrod

jerrod — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 17:13:27 +0000

I kinda feel sorry fr the poor newton, shot down by millions of hits all at the same time, from rss reader auto up dating, by the way this was digged too. there should be a law against DOSing a home connection like that, the poor guy problem has his isp on the phone yellling at him for hosting a web site, and violating his contract. i know it is cool and all to be on hackaday, but i might be a alittle upset if woke up and my connection was down and my server was fried.

By: Mark hoekstra

Mark hoekstra — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 14:38:05 +0000

>Mark, has elsie been on hackaday before?

No, I don't think she has... but I'm quite surprised she still handles the traffic coming from a link in the comments but I'm pretty sure she won't be able to handle traffic coming from a post itself... ^_^

>Great to see this old tech being used and not being chucked in the garbage.

Indeed :-) I saved my LC (elsie) from the trash and she's running as a webserver for almost 2 years now...

>This does not have enough power, we need to get a C-64 cluster going!

Well, I still need to find the time to cluster these old Sun Ultras, just for fun and experience (5x 170Mhz + a 200MHz masternode (all 64-bit btw) isn't gonna break a speedrecord, but it doesn't break the bank either :-))

http://geektechnique.org/images/731.jpg

By: olav

olav — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 12:00:14 +0000

a couple of C64 or 128’s clustred or in GRID would be nice …

By: Alan

Alan — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 05:56:30 +0000

Great to see this old tech being used and not being chucked in the garbage.

This does not have enough power, we need to get a C-64 cluster going!

By: mastershake916

mastershake916 — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 00:56:14 +0000

Should have set up a mirror or something, I mean really.

By: NewPerfection

NewPerfection — Sun, 01 Oct 2006 23:33:46 +0000

I also have a working Newton 120, it’s great. Not enough internal memory and I don’t have a memory card though, so I can’t fit much in the way of notes on it. However, for something as old as it is, it’s awesome. It does some things (such as handwriting recognition) better than most new PDA’s and micro computers.

By: Max Kelley

Max Kelley — Sun, 01 Oct 2006 21:56:53 +0000

Mark, has elsie been on hackaday before?

We should come up with a hackaday-proof Newton cluster. :)

By: markie

markie — Sun, 01 Oct 2006 21:47:20 +0000

>So somebody actualy stiil has a working Newton?

I do, although that's an eMate but it was on hackaday before:

http://www.hackaday.com/2006/07/25/wireless-emate/

I do have a low-powered webserver, a Mac but not a Newton... a Mac LC475 (33MHz!) running on NetBSD

you can find 'er here:

http://mark.is-a-geek.org/

(let's see how long this holds...) :D

By: acidx

acidx — Sun, 01 Oct 2006 20:51:36 +0000

I still have mine (MP2000) and use everyday to take notes, manage my contacts and agenda at the university. I’ve yet to see something as intuititve and non-battery-intensive device as this one.

By: BlackBelt/NL

BlackBelt/NL — Sun, 01 Oct 2006 20:40:10 +0000

cool, it’s nice too see some old hardware used like this.
Thow i woudn’t trade it for my aser n311 any time soon