Re: Apple IIe TCP-IP w/ LANceGS Card

["Bill Garber" <willy46pa@comcast.net>]

"Chris Morse" <chris@cosmicwolf.com> wrote in message
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: 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 file://e and then go
online with just a
: >> dial-up connection.
:
: >I'll leave someone with more file://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.

I know Windows doesn't support SLIP out of the box, but there
may be an external driver that you can install. I've never
needed it so I don't know for sure. Just like Outlook Express
doesn't support yEnc encoding, but there is an external proxy
link that you can install that will allow it to do so.

: >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.

Actually, there is software for the IIgs. It's called Spectrum.
The software has been the problem. Not enough space in memory
to really do a good job of it. If the larger ram cards can be
incorporated it might be made a reality sooner, but those ram
cards 1 MB and up are hard to find for the IIe. I'm sure that
working from ram rather than disk would speed up the processes
inside the system and allow larger packets to be transferred.

: 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.

The IIgs itself won't be a problem. They can be had for next
to nothing, but all the amenities is what costs. CFFA cards
with 128-1 MB CF card is nice in them, I have that in mine.
No need really for an RGB monitor if you don't mind working
in monochrome until you can afford one. Disk drives were all
over the place for a while but they seem to be dropping off
now. Nice thing is for the IIgs no interface cards are needed
for the standard drives. The 1.44 MB drives do require a card
installed in a slot. Hard to find as well. I can help you get
one going when you're ready. Give me a holler. My info is on
my web site listed below in my signature.

: 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.

The main problem with the LANceGS ethernet card is price.
At $150+ when network cards for PC and Mac are $10-$15,
it's not a good deal, not to mention that the software is
lacking. Contiki looked good for a while, but the lack of
interrupt timing, I think that was the problem, is holding
it back on the Apple IIs. I wonder, does the LANceGS provide
interrupts? If so, then Contiki could be made to work with
it. Has anyone looked into that? Maybe Joachim could drop
his price a bit if he was guaranteed a flow of sales. Just
a thought.

Bill @ GarberStreet Enterprizez };-)
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