Greetings from a mostly lurker. Who can help with the following: Hasn't someone written a TCP/IP stack for the "lowly" QL? Can one get on the 'Net without having to have a QLx0 or Aurora or the various newer hardware?
Here is what I've heard and what I've done in the past that no longer works (and the hardware I currently have): Mozilla, Firefox and Gecko-based browsers are already building up a portfolio of vulnerabilities. IE already has tons of vulnerabilities, known and as yet to be discovered. These will only grow. I'm tired of all this and would like something, however slow and however limited (viz., to text) that is unlikely to get these problems. Plus it warms "the cockles of my little black heart" to make use of such a "modest" platform to do what the power platforms don't really do for me. One can do on the QL most of one's daily business and leave the PC for only when it is really needed. Supposedly SoQL and I'm not sure what else got one on, or had _something_ to do with getting on the net. I used to use the venerable QTPI with its VT100 emulation to get to the area freenet via a shell account and from there out to the wide world, using as I remember the just as venerable lynx (which appears to be still alive, and not just in "the third world") on the freenet's machines. The freenet eventually decided it was being an ISP and for various reasons the above fell apart. Nobody allows shell accounts or shell acounts and VT100. Dealing with the one area ISP who catered to older platforms has been unhelpful. Using QPC might allow Net access, but that is really using the PC. I am looking for a use for the physical QL. Hardware: SGC mainly, but have GC and Trump ~ 1M. Minerva, 14.4 USR, Falkenberg, IBM kbd, Hermes (not SuperHermes, but could use it), dual 3.5" FDD (if I can ever get a working pair--see other email), no HDD. Old Acorn monitor, RGWBlk. 24-pin printer, can't recall the make & model (something with "P" and a four-digit number come to mind). Even have MicroDrives, though not sure they work anymore. Thanks much, Doug LaVerne Oak Ridge, TN 37830 USA -----Original Message----- From: Dilwyn Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Feb 8, 2005 6:18 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: AW: [ql-users] Visit to Switzerland >>The only QLer in the village - for all you Little Britain fans. >>Can't imaging Dilwyn in those trousers though. Or, at least, I don't >>want to. Neither do I! > Now that puts a different face on it ... :-) > > You had better be careful, Tony, about making a potential visit to > the village ... laplink, null modem cable, and all ... :-) I vaguely remember a picture and caption in IQLR magazine along the lines of "Tony Firshman caught dangling his Minerva Mkii in public". Now if that were to become a LapLink I'd start worrying ;-) -- Dilwyn Jones -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 265.8.5 - Release Date: 03/02/2005 _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
