I bought a Mac Classic this summer and restored it. I've been getting a surprising amount of practical use out of it in 2026 as a Telnet terminal to manage LLM agent sessions with tmux via BlueSCSI Wifi adapter.
I already built this open source replacement for the MacTCP stack (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50386789), but the bigger bottleneck so far seems to be the old DaynaPort serial ethernet driver which interfaces with the BlueSCSI.
I set about developing this open source replacement, and painstakingly tested it over the weekend. The results so far are great. 25-30% faster TCP receiving and Appleshare downloads on my wifi network. (Performance metrics are in the README)
There's probably some room for improvement here as well by driving the SCSI chip directly, messing with the BlueSCSI firmware, or integrating more tightly with other pieces of the networking puzzle for example..
I bought a Mac Classic this summer and restored it. I've been getting a surprising amount of practical use out of it in 2026 as a Telnet terminal to manage LLM agent sessions with tmux via BlueSCSI Wifi adapter.
I already built this open source replacement for the MacTCP stack (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50386789), but the bigger bottleneck so far seems to be the old DaynaPort serial ethernet driver which interfaces with the BlueSCSI.
I set about developing this open source replacement, and painstakingly tested it over the weekend. The results so far are great. 25-30% faster TCP receiving and Appleshare downloads on my wifi network. (Performance metrics are in the README)
There's probably some room for improvement here as well by driving the SCSI chip directly, messing with the BlueSCSI firmware, or integrating more tightly with other pieces of the networking puzzle for example..