What do to with an Internet-connected PDP-11?

[Warner Losh]

On Sun, Apr 28, 2019, 5:24 PM Will Cooke via cctech <cctech at classiccmp.org>
wrote:

>
> > On April 28, 2019 at 11:24 AM Richard Cini via cctech <
> cctech at classiccmp.org> wrote:
> >
>
> > So, for playing around, what can I practically do with this? Is it even
> possible to access any Web sites (unconventional browsing for sure; I’ve
> read about telnetting to port 80)? I’m sure email is possible, as is
> FTP/Telnet (I’ve used that inside my lab setup), but I don’t really know
> where to start with that.
> >
> >
> >
> >                 If anyone has any pointers/suggestions, I’d appreciate
> it.
> >
>
> Maybe it would be possible to get a text only browser running?
> https://lynx.browser.org/


Text only without crypto might be possible. However, with the hard limit of
64k+64k, even with overlays, is going to be a heavy lift.

Warner


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