Re: Connecting Apple IIe to "Ethernet": Questions

[wbaguhn@nyx10.cs.du.edu (Will Baguhn)]

In article <4qce87$r3l@lynx.unm.edu>,
stephen e buggie <buggie@auriga.unm.edu> wrote:
>
>My college this week wired the builing for Internet to faculty offices ---
>When I get out of this "Windoozz" computer classroom and onto my Apple 
>II, my full-screen SIG file will be seen again!
>
>The wall jack connector is a telephone-style socket.  I have heard them 
>talking of "Ethernet" but dont know what that means.
>
>What will be needed?   Can the wall socket of Ethernet connect to the 
>Super Serial card db-25 socket?
>
>I need to advise the computer expert ---- he is unsure how to connect an 
>Apple II.  Advice appreciated.
>
>
>Steve Buggie		buggie@unm.edu

The "best" way to connect an Apple II to an Ethernet is to buy a cheap-o
used 386 with enough memory (6 megs?) to run Linux.  Get a $30 10base-T
Ethernet card.  Hook the serial of the Apple II to the serial of the 386.

Then, learn unix administration... because your 386 is now part of the
network.  Use the Apple II as a glorified terminal.  Can't do much more
on it without a gs.

(on a gs...)

Use GNO/ME & GS/TCP along with diplogin on the 386 side to extend the
IP that's traveling across the ethernet to your GS.

"that's it!"

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