On Aug 23, 6:50 pm, "Paul G." <carb...@egine.com> wrote:
Thought you might enjoy this. It was done with an 30 yr old IBM PC
but the same techniques would work with an Apple II. I used to enjoy
using my collection of ancient hardware to modem in to my local
library, a few surviving BBS's, and the shell acct I had at my ISP.
All those are gone now, so I thought it was cool that this guy had
figured out ways to get a floppy-only PC online.
-Paul
Can You Do Real Work With the 30-Year-Old IBM 5150?
Our intrepid reporter spends a week trying to write, browse the Web,
edit photos, and even (shudder) tweet on IBM's first PC.
By Benj Edwards, PCWorld Aug 11, 2011 6:00 pmhttp://www.pcworld.com/article/237878/can_you_do_real_work_with_the_3...
That was a good find!
Although, on an Apple IIe, all you had to do was, what, put the Super
Serial Card into terminal mode and do IN#1? You'd still need a Mac
(let's stick with Apple, shall we!) to offer the text-based Web
browsing, emailing and tweeting via a serial terminal that the Apple
IIe would need... if you could figure how to connect an Apple IIe to a
Mac via Serial-to-USB (Keyspan USB-to-serial converters come to mind,
here).
--tonza