Re: Getting online with Apple ][... ProTerm ???

[tturner@ecn.ab.ca ()]

Tom Brown (kibri@eudoramail.com) wrote:
: markREMOVE@syndicomm.com (Mark Percival) wrote in message news:<3cd1ba06.1174071@news.videotron.ca>...
: > On Thu, 02 May 2002, Greg Buchner wrote:
<snip>
: Don't forget folks, Modem Speeds, many ISP's locally require higher
: modem speeds than a IIe can handle, and the reality of cookies on the
: browsers.  Many ISP's that have Lynx, have cookies dissabled, I am on
: a IIe right now.  What you decscribe works, provided you can find an
: ISP to support it, the modem speed issue, and stinkin Java files. 
: With cookies and java your options are limited.  My link to the web
: will be replaced in about 15 months (they are upgrading), so I will
: then have no connection to the web with this IIe.  How many of you are
: really onthe web with a IIe, or are you using newer computers and
: talking about a II on the web (really on a II).  Tom

--> Admittedly, it's due to me having local access to an ISP that has
    a TXT-based phone-access number (with a bank of 56K v90 modems);
    but yes, I still occassionally go online with my trusty IIe and
    a Supra modem 2400.  Lynx, Pine and ProTERM v3.1 allows me slow,
    but reasonably wide access to the internet.  News Groups, arrow-
    key navigation (gotta love VT100 - even though ProTERM doesn't
    handle left-arrow emulation at all, at all, at all...), even a
    bookmark - and I can go anywhere.  Graphic-intensive sites are
    often next to useless, as all I'll see is mucho [inline] tags
    and flash-required sites I cannot explore, but email is FAST
    and inherently virus-free and the News Groups are easy to read
    unless some oblivious door-knob is posting in HTML.

    In fact, even though I have a RADSL connection on my PC - I use
    telnet on the PC-side of life for that very same purpose - email
    and News Groups - TEXT RULES - HTML SUCKS (in _this_ specific
    regard).  No, I do not use my IIe to access the internet, on a
    regular basis; but I _can_ and still do, several times per year.

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