Re: Apple 2's online?

[Roy and/or Janet Miller <millers@inetnebr.com>]

xenafat wrote:

> I'm curious as to how much one could actually do online w/ a souped-up apple
> 2. can they do the following:
>
> 1) IRC chatrooms
> 2) render web pages on-screen as text-only
> 3) view and respond to newsgroups

If you have a shell account with your ISP, then your Apple II is becomes,
basically, a unix terminal, and all that you can do from that shell you can do
with your II.

>
>
> And can Apple 2's use 56k modems? Can they be hooked up to an ethernet
> network and configured, either directly or via a proxy server, to use
> cable/dsl?