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Re: I need a vt100 term. emul. for an Apple ][e



Todd Chaney (marvic@umich.edu) wrote:
: Here is the situation, I have a 128k Apple ][e that I want to set up
: so that my famlily can check email and communicate with me in an
: easier and cheaper fashion then calling me.  I am leaving for Brasil 
: in two weeks.  My problem is that I can't get the computer to comm-
: unicate with the servers at my University (Michigan) because I don't
: have an adequate terminal emulator/communcations package.  I have a
: Datalink 2400 baud modem, so I can scrape by there but It isn't
: enough.  If anyone can help me out I would really appreciate it.

It isn't the most friendly program to use, but I had good luck with
Kermit.65.  Only trouble is that while it worked great for me under DOS
3.3, I had some troubles with trying to get it to work under ProDOS.  Best
part?  It's cheap and powerful.  Worst part?  I could never get XMODEM
transfers to work, and Kermit transfers are intolerably slow.

--Dave Althoff, ][.
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