Re: Do schools still use Apple // computers?

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Jack Friess <jfriess@wctc.net> wrote:
>Ben Andrews wrote:
>> 
>> Well, we used to - and still do.  We have about 30 IIgses, 18 of which used
>> to be in a lab.  Those 18 got moved away to make room for PowerMacs.
>> They're now sitting idle in storage, but more about that later.  We also
>> had about 5 //e machines, but we traded those into Apple for a lousy bundle
>> of four CDs for the Mac.
>> 
>> The 18 machines I hope to make into a Web lab - far fetched?  Yes!  We have
>> an AppleTalk network for the Macs.  I'd like to hook this network into the
>> IIs and alos have modems for each to use each as a web browser - GRAPHICAL.
>>  Is this possible at all?
>
>Not yet to my knowledge.  But you might be interested in our 
>networking project for the Apple IIs.  We figure we'll eventually be 
>able to do text browsing through Lynx on our Pentium Linux servers.  
>Our goal is internet email from the classroom using the Apple IIs.

Well, your project and Ben's project have one critical difference.  Your
lowest common denominator is the //e while Ben's is the IIGS.  That's a
BIG gap.  It has been reported that you can already set up a Win NT server
with the appleshare plug-in to allow a IIGS to log in and share files
via simple phone-net connectors (the IIGS using System 6.0.1 with the
EasyMount file extension and appleshare FST).  You can, for SURE do this
from a Mac server.

Also, near completion is GS/TCP and in development is a graphical IIGS
web browser.

These things are near completion for the IIGS while such tools on the
//e is very unlikely.

:)

-Scott G.