Re: Getting online with Apple ][... ProTerm ???

[ludditetech@mac.com (Simon Williams)]

> Don't forget folks, Modem Speeds, many ISP's locally require higher
> modem speeds than a IIe can handle, and the reality of cookies on the
> browsers.  Many ISP's that have Lynx, have cookies dissabled, I am on
> a IIe right now.  What you decscribe works, provided you can find an
> ISP to support it, the modem speed issue, and stinkin Java files. 
> With cookies and java your options are limited.  My link to the web
> will be replaced in about 15 months (they are upgrading), so I will
> then have no connection to the web with this IIe.  How many of you are
> really onthe web with a IIe, or are you using newer computers and
> talking about a II on the web (really on a II).  Tom
> 
There's a few good points... what modem speeds can a //e or //c
handle? and what kind of problems do things like flash, javascript etc
cause?

Also I noticed that a few programs (like Appleworks, I think) have
'dialers'... is it then possible for my Apple ][ to call someone
else's over the regular phone lines without being 'on the net'?  Does
that make any sense?  I guess, I'm asking if it's possible dial direct
rather than going through an ISP.

It seems to me that computers were communicating long before there was
such a thing as an ISP, I wonder if that is still a possibility...

SW