>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 <lpro...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 18 March 2016 at 15:09, Austin Pass <austinp...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On 18 Mar 2016, at 14:04, Liam Proven <lpro...@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. > > -- > Liam Proven • Profile: http://lproven.livejournal.com/profile > Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk • GMail/G+/Twitter/Flickr/Facebook: lproven > MSN: lpro...@hotmail.com • Skype/AIM/Yahoo/LinkedIn: liamproven > Cell/Mobiles: +44 7939-087884 (UK) • +420 702 829 053 (ČR) > -- adrian/witchy Owner of Binary Dinosaurs, the UK's biggest home computer collection? www.binarydinosaurs.co.uk