24 Dec
1998
24 Dec
'98
12:29 a.m.
This is a request for information as an Internet professional, but it *is*
on topic...
I've met a family who would like to get on the Internet to mainly do email
- but all they have is an Apple 2 GS. Other than a shell account (these
folks seem to be "stick in disk, run command written on disk, scratch
head...) is there, say, a pop3 email client and IP stack software available
for that beast?
(Sorry - not much of an Apple byter - I'm a Radio Smacker myself...)
Thanks for any and all help, and Happy Holidaze!
Roger "Merch" Merchberger
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24 Dec
24 Dec
12:39 a.m.
I've met a family who would like to get on the
Internet to mainly do email
- but all they have is an Apple 2 GS. Other than a shell account (these
folks seem to be "stick in disk, run command written on disk, scratch
head...) is there, say, a pop3 email client and IP stack software available
for that beast?
Well, sort of.
To run any modern GS software, you need at least 4 megs of RAM and a hard disk.
These things you can get at alltech - www.allelec.com, and if you buy the disk
from them you even get GSOS 6.0.1, which is the most
current version of the OS.
Which you will need.
There is an IP stack for it that you can download from the net. Look for
marinetti 2.0. It does SLIP and PPP at up to 56kbps. Realistically, without
an accelerator you won't get much past 33kbps.
There is good terminal software that runs with marinetti called Spectrum 2.2.
You can get this from http://www.sevenhills.com/applesoftware/ . It includes
a copy of Marinetti. It does telnet and good terminal emulation.
There is a web browser that runs as a plugin for spectrum... *BUT* it's not
shipping yet. *sigh* I've got two people with GSs (not to mention my own)
who are waiting for this. The browser is supposedly pretty slow without an
accelerator, but it goes. No graphics though - the GS doesn't have the
processor power or ram to decode jpgs in a rational amount of time.
Oh yeah. One other thing. the GS in question needs to be at least a ROM01.
It will tell you the rom version when you power it up. If it doesn't, it's a
rom 0, and you'll need to go back to alltech and talk to them on the phone and
hopefully get a copy of the upgrade roms from them.
--
Jim Strickland
jim(a)DIESPAMMERSCUMcalico.litterbox.com
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9:34 a.m.
I've met a family who would like to get on the
Internet to mainly do email
- but all they have is an Apple 2 GS. Other than a shell account (these
folks seem to be "stick in disk, run command written on disk, scratch
head...) is there, say, a pop3 email client and IP stack software available
for that beast?
There is a SLIP stack, and mailing soft, but since this has
never been greatly incooperated into the OS, everythin has
to go togeter. Try a search for marinetti - thats a telnet
with his own stack (can also be used with som other packages).
But I think, if you could give them a unix account with
Lynx and Pine and a way to download anything should go
well - maybe using marinetti. There is also, a suit with
several apps in development, I don't remember the name,
but I guess if its graphical it needs transwarp or some
other speed up.
Gruss
H.
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Ich denke, also bin ich, also gut
HRK
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