Re: TCP/IP?

[Howe Family <khowe@omninet.net.au>]

In article <lkrupp-9A8C14.21561305092001@corp.supernews.com>, "Lawrence 
A. Krupp" <lkrupp@mac.com> wrote:

> I've been away from the Apple II world since 1994 so forgive me if I ask 
> a couple of stupid questions.
> 

Welcome back. (Even if only briefly.)

> Was TCP/IP ever implemented in GSOS? I seem to remember some attempts to 
> do so but I really can't remember. Can the IIgs DO the internet?
> 

Yes TCP/IP is up and going with Marinetti. There's several TCP/IP 
applicatons available too, and others in development.

> I've still got my IIe and my IIgs in my mother-i-law's attic. I guess 
> they're pretty worthless these days. Also some relics from the past.
> 
> Mockingboard (remember that one!)
> Sider 10 meg hard drive with ProDOS Rom. Still worked the last time I 
> booted up the IIe with it.
> Time Master II HO clock card.
> GS RAM memory card (3 megs I think)
> GS Stereo sound card.
> GS accelerator card (9mhz? was it?) can't remember the name. ZipGS?
> Apple HS SCSI card
> Super Serial Card
> 
> Any kind of market for this stuff? Ebay?
> 

Systems like this are actually quite sought after these days

> 
> I'm still in the Apple family, just on the Mac side now, but a II+ was 
> my first computer and I still hold the II family dear to my heart.
> 

My GS system is sitting just to the right of my G4 Cube. I still enjoy 
using and programming the GS.

> So how's the old platform doing these days?
> 

Most of the action is at Syndicomm. (I'm live chatting with several 
other Apple II users as I type this.) If you go to 
http://www.syndicomm.com 
and sign up with a credit card, you can come in and have a look around. 
If after a month you decide you've looked enough, just advise and you 
wont have to pay anything. I recommend it, even if you'd just like to 
have a look around for old time's sake.

KFest has just been, with the highlights being a lot of software 
returning to availability that's been hard or impossible to get. There 
haven't been too many new software releases this year. (I've made two, 
and Telnet NDA, and a Yahtzee NDA.) I'm at work on an ftp NDA and one of 
the two web browsers available for the GS. 

There's still some life left in the ][! :)

Kim Howe
See my GS programs at
http://www.a2central.com/~kimhowe