Connecting a Cambridge Z88 to the Internet

[Adrian Graham]

>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:
> >> 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...
>
> 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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