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  • Re: These computers still work?

    From Shaun Olson@solson@kc.rr.com to comp.sys.apple2 on Saturday, July 26, 2003 11:35:35
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    Just started using a IIGS recently (had last used/sold my IIC back in
    1994)....

    Best bet is to look over the EXCELLENT FAQ's at:

    Text-based HTML:
    http://www.faqs.org/faqs/apple2/faq/part1/index.html

    Hypertext HTML:
    http://home.swbell.net/rubywand/A2FAQs1START.html


    Here is where I am getting information on software and capabilities for the IIGS

    Software:
    http://modena.intergate.ca/personal/gslj/iigsfreeware.html

    Internet:
    http://modena.intergate.ca/personal/gslj/gsinternet.html http://www.apple2.org/marinetti/

    Using an Apple Superdrive Controller Card, and either purchasing an external Superdrive, and replacing the internal mechanism with an old Macintosh superdrive mechanism, you can use (on a IIGS) HFS = Macintosh formatted, as well as native format 1.44 MB floppies.

    As far as other removable media, with an Apple SCSI card (there are other brands as well), you can connect an external 50-pin SCSI CD-ROM, Zip Drive, etc.

    "Crucifyself03" <crucifyself03@aol.comnojunk> wrote in message news:20030726115045.06962.00000876@mb-m06.aol.com...
    Can an Apple II get on the Internet? Can an Apple II read 1.44 floppies?
    Do
    you have any other removable storage besides floppies?
    I am suprised so many still use these old computers. Perhaps you use the
    Apple
    II under an emulator, as there are plenty.


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  • From supertimer@supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer) to comp.sys.apple2 on Saturday, July 26, 2003 18:11:01
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    "Jason Whorton" <jason at microxl.com> wrote:

    To the original poster, you may want to breeze through the FAQ. The
    IIGS has TCP/IP and there is an e-mail program, web browser, FTP client
    and even an AOL Instant Messenger program. Due to hardware limitations, >these programs are not as robust as the current programs such as
    Internet Explorer and such, but are a great example of what can be done
    when someone cares enough to work on it.

    You have to remember the time frame of these programs.
    Mid '90s era. Back then, many schools still connected
    their students with UNIX shell accounts. Pine, UNIX FTP,
    and Lynx were the programs these IIGS offerings tried to
    match and overall, they did a pretty good job.

    On the PC side, in those days I remember the school
    computers offered Netscape 3.0 and Mosaic. Anyone
    remember Mosaic, the original graphic web browser?
    In those days, Internet Explorer was a joke. It took
    underhanded tactics for it to overtake Netscape.
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  • From pausch@pausch@saaf.se (Paul Schlyter) to comp.sys.apple2 on Saturday, July 26, 2003 21:33:20
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.apple2

    In article <20030726141101.21731.00000912@mb-m07.aol.com>,
    Supertimer <supertimer@aol.com> wrote:

    You have to remember the time frame of these programs.
    Mid '90s era. Back then, many schools still connected
    their students with UNIX shell accounts. Pine, UNIX FTP,
    and Lynx were the programs these IIGS offerings tried to
    match and overall, they did a pretty good job.

    On the PC side, in those days I remember the school
    computers offered Netscape 3.0 and Mosaic. Anyone
    remember Mosaic, the original graphic web browser?

    Sure! Mosaic was the first browser I used to surf the web, in 1994.
    Before that I had only mail and news, and used ftp mail servers to
    access ftp sites: getting a file was then often a project which
    took half a day or so.

    In those days, Internet Explorer was a joke. It took
    underhanded tactics for it to overtake Netscape.

    In those days, Internet Explorer didn't even exist! And Netscape ver
    1 was a great improvement over Mosaic. Back then, Microsoft tried
    for a while to ignore the Internet and instead hoped that their own
    "Microsoft Network" would become a world-wide network everyone would
    connect to. But soon MS realized their mistake and rushed to develop
    Internet Explorer ver 1....

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  • From crucifyself03@crucifyself03@aol.comnojunk (Crucifyself03) to comp.sys.apple2 on Saturday, July 26, 2003 21:54:00
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.apple2

    << On the PC side, in those days I remember the school
    computers offered Netscape 3.0 and Mosaic. Anyone
    remember Mosaic, the original graphic web browser?
    In those days, Internet Explorer was a joke. It took
    underhanded tactics for it to overtake Netscape. >>

    I remember those days I was in HS. I remember the days when most usd UNix shell accounts. Hence I still do! But I also have a web based mail client as well. I like the Unix shell better with Pine, but I like the web based mail client better for colors, images, and ease of use.

    I recommend that older computers with modems use Unix shells, and newer computers with broadband use web based email.
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  • From salfter@salfter@salfter.dyndns.org (Scott Alfter) to comp.sys.apple2 on Monday, July 28, 2003 17:58:32
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    In article <20030726115045.06962.00000876@mb-m06.aol.com>,
    Crucifyself03 <crucifyself03@aol.comnojunk> wrote:
    Can an Apple II get on the Internet? Can an Apple II read 1.44 floppies? Do >you have any other removable storage besides floppies?

    Your post was old ten years ago...fricking troll AOLer.

    (BTW, the answers are yes, yes, and yes...have been that way for a long
    time. A few minutes with Google would've told you that.)

    _/_ Scott Alfter
    / v \ salfter@salfter.dyndns.org
    (IIGS( http://alfter.us Top-posting!
    \_^_/ pkill -9 /bin/laden >What is the most annoying thing on Usenet?

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