Networking Apple IIc or IIc+

On Fri, 7 Jul 2000, Mike Ford wrote: I was working on a loose internet-based "team", started by a K-12 teacher in Michigan (I think), a couple years back on developing a lightweight network protocol for the Apple to connect it to a Linux server to give it internet access. The teacher wanted to make the Apple //e's in his computer lab accessible to the internet. One idea was just to create a simple dumb terminal program that allowed e-mail access (no-brainer). But I went about designing a protocol that would install under ProDOS and make a virtual ProDOS volume on the Apple that actually sat on the Linux server. It was going to be serial-based (we determined the workstation cards were too hard to come across but super serial cards are plentiful) and there would be a server application sitting on the Linux side handling the Apple's over a multi-port serial card. Anyway, simplicity (and lack of time) won out over my complex scheming. I dropped out and eventually some 18 year old kid came up with a pretty nice system that worked for them. Sellam International Man of Intrigue and Danger ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Looking for a six in a pile of nines... VCF 4.0 is September 30-October 1 San Jose Convention Center, San Jose, California See http://www.vintage.org for details!