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
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
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> 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
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.
>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...
> 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
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
>>
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
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 :)
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adrian/witchy
Owner of Binary Dinosa
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
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