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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
by uk_programmer 6y 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 6y agoNo 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.