Re: Interesting article on doing modern tasks on ancient hardware

[Tony Kavadias <tonzaggl@gmail.com>]

On Aug 23, 6:50 pm, "Paul G." <carb...@egine.com> wrote:
> Thought you might enjoy this.  It was done with an 30 yr old IBM PC
> but the same techniques would work with an Apple II.  I used to enjoy
> using my collection of ancient hardware to modem in to my local
> library, a few surviving BBS's, and the shell acct I had at my ISP.
> All those are gone now, so I thought it was cool that this guy had
> figured out ways to get a floppy-only PC online.
> -Paul
>
> Can You Do Real Work With the 30-Year-Old IBM 5150?
> Our intrepid reporter spends a week trying to write, browse the Web,
> edit photos, and even (shudder) tweet on IBM's first PC.
>
> By Benj Edwards, PCWorld    Aug 11, 2011 6:00 pmhttp://www.pcworld.com/article/237878/can_you_do_real_work_with_the_3...

That was a good find!

Although, on an Apple IIe, all you had to do was, what, put the Super
Serial Card into terminal mode and do IN#1?  You'd still need a Mac
(let's stick with Apple, shall we!) to offer the text-based Web
browsing, emailing and tweeting via a serial terminal that the Apple
IIe would need... if you could figure how to connect an Apple IIe to a
Mac via Serial-to-USB (Keyspan USB-to-serial converters come to mind,
here).

--tonza