Using Linux to get Apples surfing?

[Alistair J Ross <mail@ataliross.co.uk>]

Hello everyone,

I am waiting in anticipation for a new Apple II, courtesy of this lists
John Van Winkle.

Whilst I await the delivery I have been pondering upon what my next Apple
II conquest will be. I will be using an Apple II platinum (so I guess that
means 64K of ram to play with?).

Okay, what I'd like to do is to open up one of my Linux boxes serial ports
and run some sort of serial connection between the Apple and the Linux
box, so that I can basically access a terminal of the Linux box. I believe
that the A2 Platinum is an 80-column machine, so the standard 80 column
PC-type terminal should be OK, yes?

My main purpose in doing this is to run applications on my Linux box such
as lynx (to surf the web), and mutt (to read my email). Call me crazy but
I love the idea of being able to do that sorta stuff on an Apple II.

Anyone on this list done anything like that, or know of how it's done on a
linux box? I would presume it's got something to do with getty or
something, but I'm guessing.

Regards,

Alistair Ross



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