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I guess it's because it requires various bits of hard-to-get hardware and uses a separate modern PC as a kind of IMP (Interface Message Processor - in other wor
by zandorg 17y ago
I guess it's because it requires various bits of hard-to-get hardware and uses a separate modern PC as a kind of IMP (Interface Message Processor - in other words, an Internet router). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interface_Message_Processor http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interface_Message_Processor
But if this had been a C64 (I had a C64 once and never had a PC Jr) I guess I would have been kinder. ;-)
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- spc476 17y agoTechnically, the other PC isn't even needed, as you can get a TCP/IP stack for the PCjr: http://www.brutman.com/mTCP/ http://www.brutman.com/mTCP/ (and at one point, you could even telnet to this guy's PCjr, although that was for testing purposes).