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Re: Using Linux to get Apples surfing?
Alistair J Ross wrote:
Hello everyone,
I am waiting in anticipation for a new Apple II, courtesy of this lists
John Van Winkle.
You too? :) I can't wait to see mine, I've never owned a Platinum.
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?).
Don't you have parts from your other //e, the dead one? Or was that
completely empty?
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?
If you have an 80 column card installed, yes. And presumably a
SuperSerial card or similar.
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.
What's crazy about that? I intend to put my Platinum //e onto my
LocalTalk network, and my IIgs is already on it, running Marinetti and
MacIP onto my TCP/IP network via IPNetRouter - IRC works, DNS fails at
present (some have suggested the MacIP layer isn't quite stable, I'll
judge when I'm not /also/ running GS/OS via LocalTalk from the same
machine doing the routing /and/ the bridge from LocalTalk to ethernet...)
Samurai is a CDA, too. I see no reason why a suitably expanded //e
Platinum - mine will have AE Transwarp and 4Mb after this weekend and it
arrives - couldn't run a ProDOS 8 TCP/IP link layer with MacIP and
therefore IRC. Sadly Telnet seems to fall over.
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.
Kermit? I'd have thought all you needed was a terminal app on the //e.
You're a bit far North, but if you're ever near the Borders region, pop
in ;)
Richard
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