Re: Can grandma use the IIe to access Internet?

[aa382@freenet.carleton.ca (Marc Sira)]

In our last episode, jmcnult@orion.it.luc.edu (John A. Mcnulty) said:

>Now that we have a Mac, and even the kids are used to it, I thought I
>would give my old IIe to my 80 year old mom for xmas, and pop for a 
>subscription to one of the commercial networking companies.  Is this
>feasable?  The information card on America Online has a blank for Apple II
>but I want the real dope from you all.  

IMO, you'd be better to find an Internet provider. Commercial online
services kind of $uck. :)  There's a lot more to be found on the net.

You'll basically just need a terminal program for the ][ that can do
decent vt100 emulation, and is reasonably easy to use. Kermit can do
the former, isn't so hot at the latter. I've heard good things about the
shareware Z-Term (available via anonymous FTP from cco.caltech.edu, in
/pub/apple2/something). Alternately, you could splurge and buy ProTerm,
which is actually one of the best term programs available for any system.
It requires a 128k (or more) //e, and runs about $60 (I think) by mail
order.

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