Re: Apple IIe TCP-IP w/ LANceGS Card

[Donald Lee <coach41@pacbell.net>]

I agree with Chris on this point.  It's too bad that the Apple II was
killed right before the Internet really took off, high speed internet
became normal, and home networking because the "in thing".  

If Apple and/or a third party vendor had released a Ethernet card early
in the Apple II's life cycle, who knows what might have happened.  We
could have had some of the applications that some have clamored for a
long time (web browser, news, etc, etc). 

But, hey that's the way life goes.  I would plunk down for the LanceGS
if there was some practical use for it.  But since I have a IIe, there's
really no point right now.  I was tempted to try to buy a used IIGS to
tie it into my DSL line with the LanceGS but too much time to try and
put things together...maybe some day...:D

Don







Chris Morse wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 17 Dec 2003 04:04:07 GMT, NoEmail@NoSpam.NoNet (copper wire)
> wrote:
> 
> >>If I read your post correctly you are saying that it is possible to
> >> write the client software, etc. on the //e and then go online with just a
> >> dial-up connection.
> 
> >I'll leave someone with more //e Internet access knowledge and programming
> >knowledge to answer that one.  It would be cool though, no?
> 
> I'll jump in here and say yeah, you probably can.  The Contiki project
> shows it's possible.. but you can't "dial in" to an ISP unless they
> support only the SLIP protocol; there's no PPP implementation yet..
> So the basic route is to have a direct serial connection to a lunix
> box that supplies the SLIP connection.   Windows does not support
> SLIP, only PPP as far as that is concerned.
> 
> >Personally, as soon as client software becomes available to use an Apple
> >IIgs and/or IIe to do email and NNTP USENET access (using client software
> >on those respective machines over TCP/IP), I'll probably be buying one of
> >those Ethernet cards to hook up my Apple IIgs and/or Apple IIe to my cable
> >modem.
> 
> That's my hope.. I don't have a IIgs (yet) and probably won't get
> around to getting one for a little while.  I'd like to work on the IIe
> first.
> 
> I have a feeling that the LANceGS card would sell a few more copies if
> the IIe had functional ethernet support for accessing the internet or
> LAN.
> 
> // CHRIS