Re: Telnet from a Apple //e?

[Polymorph <polymorph69@hotmail.com>]

On Jul 28, 3:18 pm, JCarlson <jcarlson1...@gmail.com> wrote:
> In article
> ¼1185585303.140344.246...@r34g2000hsd.googlegroups.com>"bbaker4311@gmai
>
> l.com" <bbaker4...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >  Back in the day we used to telnet all the time.  One simply finds a
> > dial-up BBS type system.  Connect to that system and then use
> > theremote telnet from that system.
> >  It's been a long time but I thought you could telnet from Proterm
> > after you were connected.  It used to be that internet providers
> > would allow you to dial up and connect to a menu.  From that menu you
>
> ¾ could use a program to telnet or actually do www.  A program named
>
> > lynx could be used to do surfing, you just didn't see all the
> > prettypictures.  That makes it faster, if all you want is information.
> >  But few internet providers allow you to directly connect like that
> > anymore.  They are so afraid someone will go through a security
> > holeand do evil deeds.
> >  Jcarlson1701 wrote:
> >>   Hi All,
> >>   I would like to be able to telnet from my A2e but don't know how.
> >> I currently have my A2e connected to my mac via a SSC and a serial
> >> to USB adapter. Can anyone help me with this? What will I need to
> >> do, what software will I need, etc... Any help would be appreciated.
> >>   Regards,
> >>   Josh
>
> Are there still any dial up Apple 2 related BBS's left? I have a Hayes
> modem that could be put to good use. However, I figured that I could
> "piggyback" my Macs internet connection on the A2 and telnet that way.
> A2 Central's web site leads me to believe this is possible, but
> doesn't explain how to do it.

There are not many dial up BBS's left, however there was a recent
thread discussing this - it didn't really interest me greatly because
I'm in Australia.  ;-)

If you have a search over the last few weeks you should find a thread
regarding the availability of BBS's. Good luck finding one near you
though.

If you ran linux on your Mac, you could set it up to act as a terminal
server by setting it up to listen to your serial connection. Then you
could direct serial into it (like I mentioned before) and then use
telnet or lynx from your Mac (if it has a connection to the internet).
Then you could "psuedo" browse on your //e. You may be able to set Mac
OS up as a terminal server also, but I'm not familiar with Macs at
all, so I'll leave that up for an exercise for you.

Or as someone mentioned previously, if you could find a dial up
internet provider that still gives you a shell account, you could dial
in (by using your modem) to the internet provider (from within MMGR or
Zlink for example) and use telnet or lynx from there. I don't know
about where you are, but accounts with shell access are pretty hard
(if not impossible) to find these days.

Hope this helps.

cheers,
-p