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Re: IRC Channels for Apple 2 talk?
- Subject: Re: IRC Channels for Apple 2 talk?
- From: Andrew James Alan Welty <andrew@cci-29palms.com>
- Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2005 04:37:22 -0800
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
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> : > If you have a modem and term program for your A2, then you can
> : > connect to an ISP that has a shell account and chat. Though I can't get
> : > into EFnet for some reason, I can get into other servers, like
> : > irc.eskimo.com . And I happily chat away with my old 8-bit computer.
>
> I can do that - but I see no where on my ISP that allows that. There's
> PINE at their end and ProTERM at mine. Don't see where/how to get to any
> chat thingie... Perhaps I need to get to a prompt (which I can do) and
> then type in something (ie: not FTP:// or HTTP://, but perhaps something
> else?) Hadn't thought of that... Any more info in this regard would be
> great (and would likely be a nice little addition to the FAQ's - as I've
> not seen anything regarding this - though I may have missed it).
Depends on your ISP. They may offer a command line IRC client on their
shell account.