Re: Apple II's and highspeed access

[email@DELETE_THIS.luddite.no-ip.com (Simon Williams)]

<tturner@ecn.ab.ca> wrote:

> Yeah, I've read about the various software tools that allow an A2
> (seemingly almost exclusively for the 2gs) to `do' the internet and that's
> a Good Thing - one of these fine days (sooner than when I'd pick-up an old
> Mac - though that's still somewhere down the road...), I'll set-up the gs
> to try that; though I can already use my ][e and ProTERM to get to the
> NG's, do email etc - though only at 2400 bps.  Mind you, with it being all
> text - the speed isn't too terrible.  The VT100 emulation is OK ('cept for
> the arrow-key emulation - that sucks) and the fact that my ISP has
> a full-text access set-up, makes it workable; though I must admit that I
> don't use my Apple for this very often - DSL and the requirements at work,
> to use a PC; kind of force the issue.  So - I can `surf' (though via text
> only); so adding a higher-speed modem and trying the graphical route on
> the gs will be interesting to see - and I'll eventually be able to do
> this via DSL, it appears; but it looks like I'll not be able to network
> them - only `internet' them.  Oh well - c'est la vie.

I've also been using ProTerm to telnet into ECN for a while, but I'm
running it on my IIgs with a 56K modem. Personally, I've found that any
GS-specific software I've tried seems awkward and unstable by
comparison. 
If anyone ever cobbled together an ethernet card for the IIe, it sure
would be nice to have a ProTerm patch to go with it...
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