On these days I've dug out of storage an old laptop, an IBM Thinkpad 755CE -- which I bought back in 2012 for 30 Euros.
10 years ago I posted a thread about it here: https://forum.vcfed.org/index.php?t...-on-a-semi-vintage-ibm-thinkpads-price.29906/
So now I'm in the process of installing Debian 2.2 Potato on it. I am already well into the project: I have XFree86 3.3 working, and Netscape Communicator 4.77 running.
In that thread from 10 years ago, I could post to these forums from Netscape 4.7 in Windows 95 with that machine. Nowadays, that is impossible because modern SSL/TLS is not supported by that vintage Netscape version.
So I am researching Internet corners where plain HTTP (without SSL/TLS) is still served. And I have found this:
10 years ago I posted a thread about it here: https://forum.vcfed.org/index.php?t...-on-a-semi-vintage-ibm-thinkpads-price.29906/
So now I'm in the process of installing Debian 2.2 Potato on it. I am already well into the project: I have XFree86 3.3 working, and Netscape Communicator 4.77 running.
In that thread from 10 years ago, I could post to these forums from Netscape 4.7 in Windows 95 with that machine. Nowadays, that is impossible because modern SSL/TLS is not supported by that vintage Netscape version.
So I am researching Internet corners where plain HTTP (without SSL/TLS) is still served. And I have found this:
- A simple HTTP page, which renders fine on Netscape 4.77: http://www.columbia.edu/~fdc/sample.html
- A complex HTTP page, which causes a 486 with 40 MB RAM and Netscape 4.77 to trash the swap so badly that it becomes unusable: http://www.columbia.edu/~fdc/family/frankfurt.html