Old computers serving HTTP

[stepleton]

After two months of rest and recuperation, our Whitechapel MG-1 is back to serving HTTP requests again at http://mg-1.uk:31132. This is not a dependable computer at all and it will probably be down again by the time you read this.

It did make me curious: do other people have old machines serving webpages? It was fun to write a webserver for a machine that predates the web by six years or so, and I have to imagine other people have set up similar sorts of things. Some web searching turns up a few:

• The author of mTCP has had a PCjr online
• There is a list of old Apple computers serving HTTP, most of them down
• www.bambi-amiga.co.uk apparently runs on an Amiga 1200
• This old thread discusses a C64 web server

Are there any other notably old computers serving HTTP out there that would be fun to know about? They are seldom up for long, but it's fun to pay them a visit while they're running.

 

[Alegend]

My 1985 vintage homebrew MicroVAX II machine runs a WASD http server since May 2020. I know it is a 32-bit beast, nonetheless it is so slow it can sometimes make your eyes water. It complied its own WASD http server package in 18 hours. Compiling a "Hello World" C program takes about 50 seconds. That's if you are the only user logged in and nothing else runs on the machine.

You can check it out at:
http://microvax2.ddns.net:50224/wasd_root/home.html

-Alon.

 

[stepleton]

That's perfect! It was nice to visit the other day---WASD is much fancier than the few-hundred-line HTTP server I hacked together one afternoon. Alas, the MG-1's intermittent fault around the I/O processor is playing up again, so mg-1.uk is down once more. We'll be back eventually, I hope!

 

[ClassicHasClass]

That's not bad at all. I've been looking for something fun to do with this VAXstation.