12 Jun
1997
12 Jun
'97
3:21 p.m.
Tim Shoppa wrote:
I remember showing an undergraduate how it was
possible to plug
a modem into a terminal and dial up to a shell account. He was
so amazed that the world had been easily fooled into thinking that you
need a computer to access the Internet :-)
Tim,
How true. One of my first experiences with a modem was messing with a
non-Hayes compatible Racal-Vadic with a simple terminal, though I forget
just which terminal it was emulating. Now I occasionally do the
opposite of what you refer to above and hook my Atari ST up to my Amiga
3000 as a VT-100 terminal for shell processes!
Jeff jeffh(a)unix.aardvarkol.com
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Collector of Classic Computers: Amiga 1000, Apple II+, Atari 800,
800XL, MegaST-2, XE System, Coleco Adam, Commodore 128D, 16, Plus/4,
VIC-20, IBM 5155, Kaypro 2X, Mattel Aquarius, Osbourne Executive,
Radofin Aquarius, TI-99/4A, Sinclair ZX-81, Timex-Sinclair 1000, TRS-80
Color Computer 3, Model 4, and Model 4P. Also Odyssey2, Atari SuperPong
and Atari 2600VCS game consoles