Re: Connecting a Cambridge Z88 to the Internet

2016-03-24 Thread Lawrence Woodman
On 20/03/16 19:29, Jules Richardson wrote: 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

Re: Connecting a Cambridge Z88 to the Internet

2016-03-20 Thread 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

Re: Connecting a Cambridge Z88 to the Internet

2016-03-20 Thread Austin Pass
Sent from my iPhone > On 18 Mar 2016, at 14:20, Liam Proven wrote: > > 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 have the original Z88 serial cable for mine (it's a fully bo

Connecting a Cambridge Z88 to the Internet

2016-03-19 Thread Liam Proven
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.

Re: Connecting a Cambridge Z88 to the Internet

2016-03-19 Thread 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...

Re: Connecting a Cambridge Z88 to the Internet

2016-03-19 Thread Austin Pass
> On 18 Mar 2016, at 14:04, 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 conne

Re: Connecting a Cambridge Z88 to the Internet

2016-03-19 Thread Liam Proven
On 18 March 2016 at 15:09, Austin Pass wrote: >> On 18 Mar 2016, at 14:04, 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 >>

Re: Connecting a Cambridge Z88 to the Internet

2016-03-19 Thread Liam Proven
On 18 March 2016 at 15:27, Adrian Graham wrote: > 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... Since I've been playing with my new Raspberry Pi 3 today, I was thinking one of those might make a conven

Re: Connecting a Cambridge Z88 to the Internet

2016-03-19 Thread Adrian Graham
On 18 March 2016 at 15:13, Liam Proven wrote: > Since I've been playing with my new Raspberry Pi 3 today, I was > thinking one of those might make a convenient host system. A USB <=> > RS-232 convertor is probably the easiest way. > I can do that too :) -- adrian/witchy Owner of Binary Dinosa

Re: Connecting a Cambridge Z88 to the Internet

2016-03-18 Thread Robert Rissell
Your problem would be finding a suitable host device. Early internet access was serviced by text only portals such as Gopher. Today I would not count on finding one operating other than as a remote termial session on an older machine. On Mar 18, 2016 10:04 AM, "Liam Proven" wrote: > I've been