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Can anyone explain what we are seeing here? I’ve never had an Apple II, unfortunately. The guy is running a terminal emulator on the Apple II? Or does it under

Can anyone explain what we are seeing here? I’ve never had an Apple II, unfortunately. The guy is running a terminal emulator on the Apple II? Or does it understand vt220 instructions natively? What is this interface, an editor? Very cool stuff nonetheless.

pvg 7y ago
The guy is running a terminal emulator on the Apple II? It looks like it's exactly that. The zany CHIP computer 'wifi modem' used to connect is itself a more powerful computer than the vintage 'terminal'.
- uk_programmer 7y ago
  You can do this with just the serial port and a USB to serial converter with something like a RPi that will emulate a modem for you. http://podsix.org/articles/pimodem/ http://podsix.org/articles/pimodem/ However that can be replaced with a plipbox (I believe he has open sourced it and you can build your own). http://lallafa.de/blog/amiga-projects/plipbox/ http://lallafa.de/blog/amiga-projects/plipbox/ You can just plug this into the back of your PC. This is a good demonstration of how it all works. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egi3MiSgV1k https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egi3MiSgV1k
  - pvg 7y ago
    No doubt. I just meant it as yet-another mildly entertaining way to think about exponential growth. Apple put this turd out about a decade after their first computer. It's, at best, about four times faster than the original. 30 years after it was discontinued, you need a computer many thousands of times more powerful to connect the //c+ to a network. That computer costs $9.
LeoPanthera 7y ago
Yes, he's using a terminal emulator, and a hardware device which does serial-to-wifi.
strategarius 7y ago
I saw Apple II, however I also don't understand from the article, what's the author work with? No even brief project description, no code, no usage context... Maybe the article is just a beginning of some bigger story. Everything is too unclear. Would be nice to hear comments from the author.
trimbo 7y ago
Proterm is my guess https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ProTERM https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ProTERM Edit: actually the author said it was modem mgr. http://www.apple2.org.za/gswv/a2zine/GS.WorldView/v1999/Oct/Modem.Mgr.Manual/MMGR.CHAP.01.txt http://www.apple2.org.za/gswv/a2zine/GS.WorldView/v1999/Oct/...
fuzzy2 7y ago
The application running is irssi, if that's what you're asking.

pvg 7y ago

The guy is running a terminal emulator on the Apple II? It looks like it's exactly that. The zany CHIP computer 'wifi modem' used to connect is itself a more powerful computer than the vintage 'terminal'.

uk_programmer 7y ago
You can do this with just the serial port and a USB to serial converter with something like a RPi that will emulate a modem for you. http://podsix.org/articles/pimodem/ http://podsix.org/articles/pimodem/ However that can be replaced with a plipbox (I believe he has open sourced it and you can build your own). http://lallafa.de/blog/amiga-projects/plipbox/ http://lallafa.de/blog/amiga-projects/plipbox/ You can just plug this into the back of your PC. This is a good demonstration of how it all works. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egi3MiSgV1k https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egi3MiSgV1k
- pvg 7y ago
  No doubt. I just meant it as yet-another mildly entertaining way to think about exponential growth. Apple put this turd out about a decade after their first computer. It's, at best, about four times faster than the original. 30 years after it was discontinued, you need a computer many thousands of times more powerful to connect the //c+ to a network. That computer costs $9.

LeoPanthera 7y ago

Yes, he's using a terminal emulator, and a hardware device which does serial-to-wifi.

strategarius 7y ago

I saw Apple II, however I also don't understand from the article, what's the author work with? No even brief project description, no code, no usage context... Maybe the article is just a beginning of some bigger story. Everything is too unclear. Would be nice to hear comments from the author.

trimbo 7y ago

Proterm is my guess https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ProTERM https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ProTERM Edit: actually the author said it was modem mgr. http://www.apple2.org.za/gswv/a2zine/GS.WorldView/v1999/Oct/Modem.Mgr.Manual/MMGR.CHAP.01.txt http://www.apple2.org.za/gswv/a2zine/GS.WorldView/v1999/Oct/...

fuzzy2 7y ago

The application running is irssi, if that's what you're asking.