Re: Apple IIe TCP-IP w/ LANceGS Card

[NoEmail@NoSpam.NoNet (copper wire)]

In article <broblf0knv@enews4.newsguy.com>, "Charlie"
<charlied@NOSPAMbboard.com> wrote:
> Wouldn't you need a TCP/IP stack (whatever that is) and additional client
> software even if you weren't using an Ethernet card?  For instance if you were
> using a dial-up modem.

Yes and no.  :)
Although I don't access the Internet using my Apple II machines, I suspect
that currently all people in the 8 bit Apple II world who access the 'net
with their 8 bit Apple II's use UNIX shell accounts to access the Internet
using a terminal emulator software on their machines. In that case, they
would be using their systems simply as "dumb terminals", the UNIX box they
are dialing into would have to take care of the rest (TCP/IP, the type of
email/FTP/web access methods the UNIX box provides, etc.).

The Apple IIgs/GSOS does have a third party TCP/IP stack for it, and from
what I've read, it does have a third party Telnet client (and possibly an
FTP client?). Other than that one is still out of luck as far as I know,
in regards to client softwares for stuff like email. Perhaps Spectrum
Interent Suite allows one to access the web over the IIgs's TCP/IP stack?
Someone else will have to answer that one. All I have is ProTerm.



>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?

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.