Re: ANN: Web Browser for 8 bit Apple //

[tturner@ecn.ab.ca ()]

Jalapeno (jalapeno1@mac.com) wrote:
: In article <CpPr8.2384$Sv.150131@localhost>, tturner@ecn.ab.ca () 
: wrote:
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--> Thanks for the info.  It's cleared-up some points, though not all.
    From what I've read directly by the creator of LANceGS (ie: the web-
    -site) it's aimed at the IIgs, perhaps because the GS is 16bit and
    has software for surfing/networking (though it's still not clear
    whether other hardware is required for the networking side: Mac, or
    GatorBox, etc...); while the IIe (or the IIc/IIc+, for that matter),
    has no software that can make use of the LANceGS card.

    I don't expect to be able to run software on a PC, from my Apples;
    nor on my Apples, from my PCs.  I'd simply like to be able to copy,
    delete, open and perhaps save, TXT files - from either side, to
    either side.  Simply being able to do a directory (CATalog) on one
    of my Apples (and navigate up/down/through trees/paths/directories)
    would be a neat thing to be able to do.  Hell, I'd add my Amiga 500
    to the network, as well, if I could - getting Apple 2's, PC's & an
    Amiga 500 even doing a rudimentary `talking' to each other would
    give me a grin that would hurt my face...  :-> 

    But the more info I get, the better informed I'll be and even that's
    a good goal, as well.  Thanks.
: > 
: > --> If, by adding a LANceGS card to my IIe, possibly modded - and if,
: >     by adding some software (installable on my Sider), I could get my
: >     IIe to be able to share/swap/copy/open files with/between the PC's
: >     on my P2P network (IOW, add my IIe directly to my network, via/
: >     through my Linksys Switches); then I would quite likely spring for
: >     the dollars to obtain such.  Simply because I think t'would be so
: >     very, very, cool.
: > 

: Only the [lack of] software for the iie is holding you back now.
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    Aye, there's the rub.  I don't have the technical skills to know
    whats' needed, nor the abilities to bring such, to fruition.  All
    I can do is hope that it may, someday, exist.  At that point; I
    buy 2 LANceGS cards (or whatever equivalent makes it happen) and
    hope the software is well under a hundred bucks - so I can buy
    one for the IIe and one for the IIgs (and if a couple or three
    different programs are needed - buy them one-at-a-time, so the
    Wife doesn't blow-up:  "You're spending HOW MUCH on those old
    computers!?!?")  ;-/ 

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