Re: Apple on the Internet

[salfter@salfter.ncc74656.dyndns.org (Scott Alfter)]

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In article <3c06504b$0$12999$4c41069e@reader0.ash.ops.us.uu.net>,
Jack Schmidling <arf@mc.net> wrote:
>I had been using my IIe on the internet years before Al Gore invented it but
>I can't seem to access it anymore.  I thought it was an Apple problem but I
>now find that I can not access it with the Communications module in an old
>versions of MS Works.

If you want to dial in directly with your IIe, you need an ISP that offers
shell accounts.  Good luck finding one in 2001. :-| One possibility, though,
would be to "create your own shell account" by throwing Linux or *BSD onto
an old 486 (or whatever you can get cheap/free).  Set it up to dial into
your ISP (any ISP will do) and hook your IIe into it through a null-modem
cable.  It'll be just like getting a shell account back in the day...except
that your ISP ten years ago didn't give you root. :-) (With this setup, you
could also upgrade to cable-modem or DSL access.)

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