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Interesting article on doing modern tasks on ancient hardware
- Subject: Interesting article on doing modern tasks on ancient hardware
- From: "Paul G." <carbide@egine.com>
- Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2011 15:50:44 -0700 (PDT)
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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 pm
http://www.pcworld.com/article/237878/can_you_do_real_work_with_the_30yearold_ibm_5150.html