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

[julian814@hotmail.com (Ralph Glatt)]

ludditetech@mac.com (Simon Williams) wrote in message news:<9f61cf69.0205031325.17398028@posting.google.com>...
> > 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
> > 
> There's a few good points... what modem speeds can a //e or //c
> handle? and what kind of problems do things like flash, javascript etc
> cause?
> 
> Also I noticed that a few programs (like Appleworks, I think) have
> 'dialers'... is it then possible for my Apple ][ to call someone
> else's over the regular phone lines without being 'on the net'?  Does
> that make any sense?  I guess, I'm asking if it's possible dial direct
> rather than going through an ISP.
> 
> It seems to me that computers were communicating long before there was
> such a thing as an ISP, I wonder if that is still a possibility...

Okay, I'm no expert, but as I recall, the fastest connection on a //c
is 19600 bps, so I imagine you could use a 14.4 kbps modem on it. The
fact that Lynx, the web browser you can use now with a //e or //c, is
text based means that flash and javascript aren't really an issue. Not
sure how they're going to deal with that in the new web browser that's
being developed now.

Sure, it's possible to dial directly to another computer, provided the
other computer is set up to interact with the Apple//. The real trick
is finding another computer to dial into. Not too many people running
BBS's that cater to the Apple // anymore. :-(


Ralph Glatt