Connecting a Cambridge Z88 to the Internet

[Jules Richardson]

On 03/18/2016 09:04 AM, Liam Proven 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?

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