Re: IIe & modem???

[nathan@visi.com (Nathan Mates)]

In article <19980210043800.XAA11552@ladder02.news.aol.com>,
MCPAWCUA <mcpawcua@aol.com> wrote:
>My parents have a standard IIe (no extra ram, no internal hard drive, ect) and
>were wondering if it's possible to use it in a vacation house, mainly for
>e-mail.  Anybody have experience in this and if so, what's needed?  

   You'll definitely need a modem for starters. Internal modems for
the //e topped off at 2400 baud, but if you get a serial board such as
the Super Serial Card, you can plug in an external serial modem, such
as one from a PC. 14.4 is probably as fast as you could go with a base
//e, but that's fast enough for email. 

   The bigger problem that you might have, based on your email
address, is that AOL dropped support for Apple IIs a long time
ago. Can't use them at all. Fortunately, there are many more ISPs that
exist and don't unilaterally drop features. You'll need to find an ISP
with a dialup shell account (no SLIP or PPP on the //e), and a comm
program.  For more info on this, as well as inexpensive comm programs,
drop by the comp.sys.apple2 Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) at
http://www.visi.com/~nathan/a2/faq/csa2.html section 7.1

Nathan Mates

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