On Mon, 15 Aug 2022 22:08:33 +0000, Bob Campbell <
nunya@none.none>
declaimed the following:
Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
On Mon, 15 Aug 2022 12:24:29 -0700 (PDT), KP KP <jungletrain@outlook.com>
declaimed the following:
On Friday, November 7, 1986 at 12:06:13 PM UTC-8, Mark Horton wrote:
A response to a 35+ year old post?
Perhaps KP KP just now got his TRS-80 on the internet. :-)
He found someone still providing dial-up shell accounts? My Mod III/4 (upgrades) never did have a serial port, so I never even had the chance of using a 1200Baud modem with it. Definitely not going to fit a NIC into a
Z-80 based TRS-80
Didn't buy a modem until latter 80s, for my Amiga system. Eventually using TIA on a shell account to set up an Internet connection. (What fun... start VLT, dial into shell service, exec TIA [just to avoid having a shell session doing nothing], keep modem connected while disconnecting VLT, start network stack, connect VLT via telnet to get back to a shell session).
{I sometimes have dreams of writing a bidirectional driver for the printer port, or general I/O port -- feeding an Arduino (or over-priced left-over
BASIC Stamp) to create a serial port... That presumes the drive heads don't break off the first time I power it up after 30 years of storage, and am
able to patch the OS to handle the new decade.}
VLT = Valiant Little Terminal; written at SLAC to emulate VT-100 AND
Tektronix graphics terminals... And it did it well enough to run VAX/VMS
EDT editor!
TIA = The Internet Adapter; a $$ program that was probably killed by SLIrP
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Wulfraed Dennis Lee Bieber AF6VN
wlfraed@ix.netcom.com http://wlfraed.microdiversity.freeddns.org/
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