Re: Unix/Linux Box

[mjmahon@aol.com (Michael J. Mahon)]

Michael Black wrote:

>Maybe there's not much advantage in this.  But if you use lynx
>to download an Apple program, lynx will download it to a temporary
>file on the Linux computer, and you can then transfer it over the
>serial port to the Apple.  You no longer have to make a disk on
>the main computer, in Apple format on top of that, and move it
>physically to the Apple.  And except for software that apparently
>runs on the IIGS, this is the closest many people will get to
>putting their Apple II on the internet.

There is no need to "make a disk on the main computer" in the
case that Ernest described.  One simply browses and downloads
whatever is desired on the PC platform, then runs ADT to transfer
the disk images to the Apple II as needed.  Since all the images
ever transferred can be filed on the PC, it is trivial to make a CD-R
backup.

There is little or no advantage to text-based browsing on an Apple
connected through Linux, unless that's what floats your boat.

-michael

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