18 Mar
2016
18 Mar
'16
10:04 a.m.
I've been asked about doing this for an exhibition.
From some cursory Googling, it seems that the Z88 has a
terminal
emulator, and equipped with a suitable serial cable, you could just
run a cable to a host device with an Internet connection and have a
text-only terminal session fairly readily.
Not much more than that, though.
Has anyone on CC done this?
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18 Mar
18 Mar
10:09 a.m.
On 18 Mar 2016, at 14:04, Liam Proven <lproven at
gmail.com> wrote:
I've been asked about doing this for an exhibition.
From some cursory Googling, it seems that the Z88 has a terminal
emulator, and equipped with a suitable serial cable, you could just
run a cable to a host device with an Internet connection and have a
text-only terminal session fairly readily.
Not much more than that, though.
I haven't, but have all the pre-requisites to giving it a go...
-Austin.
10:20 a.m.
On 18 March 2016 at 15:09, Austin Pass <austinpass at gmail.com> wrote:
I'd be fascinated to hear of any gotchas if you were curious enough to
give it a go. My skills at things like making serial cables are very
minimal indeed.
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On 18 Mar
2016, at 14:04, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
I've been asked about doing this for an exhibition.
From some cursory Googling, it seems that the Z88 has a terminal
emulator, and equipped with a suitable serial cable, you could just
run a cable to a host device with an Internet connection and have a
text-only terminal session fairly readily.
Not much more than that, though.
I haven't, but have all the pre-requisites to giving it a go... 
10:27 a.m.
I'd be fascinated to hear of any gotchas if you
were curious enough to
give it a go. My skills at things like making serial cables are very
minimal indeed.
I know exactly where my Z88 and power supply are, serial cable and modem
not a problem. But! Dial-up services? I could RS232 onto a VAX...
A
On 18 March 2016 at 14:20, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
On 18 March 2016 at 15:09, Austin Pass <austinpass
at gmail.com> wrote:
I'd be fascinated to hear of any gotchas if you were curious enough to
give it a go. My skills at things like making serial cables are very
minimal indeed.
--
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On 18 Mar
2016, at 14:04, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
I've been asked about doing this for an exhibition.
From some cursory Googling, it seems that the Z88 has a terminal
emulator, and equipped with a suitable serial cable, you could just
run a cable to a host device with an Internet connection and have a
text-only terminal session fairly readily.
Not much more than that, though.
I haven't, but have all the pre-requisites to giving it a go...
11:13 a.m.
On 18 March 2016 at 15:27, Adrian Graham <binarydinosaurs at gmail.com> wrote:
I know exactly where my Z88 and power supply are,
serial cable and modem
not a problem. But! Dial-up services? I could RS232 onto a VAX...
Since I've been playing with my new Raspberry Pi 3 today, I was
thinking one of those might make a convenient host system. A USB <=>
RS-232 convertor is probably the easiest way.
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11:44 a.m.
On 18 March 2016 at 15:13, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
Since I've been playing with my new Raspberry Pi 3
today, I was
thinking one of those might make a convenient host system. A USB <=>
RS-232 convertor is probably the easiest way.
I can do that too :)
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Owner of Binary Dinosaurs, the UK's biggest home computer collection?
www.binarydinosaurs.co.uk
11:51 a.m.
Sent from my iPhone
On 18 Mar 2016, at 14:20, Liam Proven <lproven at
gmail.com> wrote:
I'd be fascinated to hear of any gotchas if you were curious enough to
give it a go. My skills at things like making serial cables are very
minimal indeed.
I have the original Z88 serial cable for mine (it's a fully boxed original).
I even have a vintage 3Com terminal server that can bridge COM ports to IP's via
telnet.
I'll hook it all up and let you know how I get on.
11:06 a.m.
Your problem would be finding a suitable host device. Early internet
access was serviced by text only portals such as Gopher. Today I would
not count on finding one operating other than as a remote termial session
on an older machine.
On Mar 18, 2016 10:04 AM, "Liam Proven" <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
I've been asked about doing this for an
exhibition.
From some cursory Googling, it seems that the Z88 has a terminal
emulator, and equipped with a suitable serial cable, you could just
run a cable to a host device with an Internet connection and have a
text-only terminal session fairly readily.
Not much more than that, though.
Has anyone on CC done this?
--
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Email: lproven at cix.co.uk ? GMail/G+/Twitter/Flickr/Facebook: lproven
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20 Mar
20 Mar
3:29 p.m.
On 03/18/2016 09:04 AM, Liam Proven wrote:
I've been asked about doing this for an
exhibition.
Not with a Z88, but I have done this with my Tandy 102, just for the heck
of it. I believe the displays of the two machines are similar in size, and
at least with the Tandy it was quite painful - it works, but not being able
to see more than 8 lines of text at a time gets irritating quite fast.
cheers
Jules
From some cursory Googling, it seems that the Z88
has a terminal
emulator, and equipped with a suitable serial cable, you could just
run a cable to a host device with an Internet connection and have a
text-only terminal session fairly readily.
Not much more than that, though.
Has anyone on CC done this? 
24 Mar
24 Mar
4:59 a.m.
On 20/03/16 19:29, Jules Richardson wrote:
On 03/18/2016 09:04 AM, Liam Proven wrote:
One of the nice things with the Z88 is that while you do only have 8
lines you get double the character width of the Tandy 102 at 80 characters.
bfn
Law
I've been asked about doing this for an
exhibition.
Not with a Z88, but I have done this with my Tandy 102, just for the
heck of it. I believe the displays of the two machines are similar in
size, and at least with the Tandy it was quite painful - it works, but
not being able to see more than 8 lines of text at a time gets
irritating quite fast. From some cursory Googling, it seems that the Z88
has a terminal
emulator, and equipped with a suitable serial cable, you could just
run a cable to a host device with an Internet connection and have a
text-only terminal session fairly readily.
Not much more than that, though.
Has anyone on CC done this?
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