Re: info on apple comp.

[nathan@visi.com (Nathan Mates)]

In article <5mi1nm$3qk$1@newsd-101.bryant.webtv.net>,
lawrence chapman <larry5@webtv.net> wrote:
>with the proper software can the apple ii or anyother models of
>apple comp. be used to acess the internet without difficulty.

   That mostly depends on your definition of "the internet" and
"without difficuly." Much more info on this and lots of other subjects
are available at the comp.sys.apple2 Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
at http://www.visi.com/~nathan/a2/faq/csa2.html

   Any Apple II with a serial card (and possibly modem), comm program,
and [null] modem connection to a [usually unix] host and do everything
you want and can with a text connection. Pictures are not displayed,
but that's usually a speed advantage as the fluff is ignored. [Certain
types of pictures can be download and viewed on varius Apple II
models] Also, TCP/IP support is not finished, so you will need to find
a connection that supports that.

   If you must have fancy pictures, all the latest WWW Browser plugins
doing various levels of crud, save up and buy a used
PC/Mac/workstation and use that. If you can wait (how long is
unknown...), TCP/IP might be released, removing one "difficulty" a lot
of people nowadays are starting to run into.

Nathan Mates

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