This adapts the cable coming from the Mac to the USB port on the Pi. This connects to the Mac modem/printer serial port. Since the older Pi didn’t have internal WiFi, I used a small TP Link usb Wifi adapter. My Pi was an older “Model B” running Raspian. In my case, it was an SE FDHD with 4mb of ram. In the end, I needed the following hardware: The Mac connects with PPP over the serial cable and the Pi has a PPP sever running called SLiRP. The other nice thing about using the Pi was it essentially gives me wireless internet on the old Mac, so I don’t have to be tethered to an Ethernet jack.Īt risk of over-simplifying things, the Raspberry Pi shares it’s internet connection over a serial cable. Without spending $100s of dollars on vintage networking cards I did happen to have a Raspberry Pi kicking around.
In trying to research how to get my SE online I came across a few different ways people have gotten their 68k Macs online, here’s a summary of some: Introducing a computer from the 80’s to today’s internet
