REAL plug&play hardware

From: Jeff Hellige <jeffh_at_unix.aardvarkol.com>
Date: Thu Jun 12 22:21:59 1997

Tim Shoppa wrote:
> I remember showing an undergraduate how it was possible to plug
> a modem into a terminal and dial up to a shell account. He was
> so amazed that the world had been easily fooled into thinking that you
> need a computer to access the Internet :-)
 
Tim,

        How true. One of my first experiences with a modem was messing with a
non-Hayes compatible Racal-Vadic with a simple terminal, though I forget
just which terminal it was emulating. Now I occasionally do the
opposite of what you refer to above and hook my Atari ST up to my Amiga
3000 as a VT-100 terminal for shell processes!

        Jeff jeffh_at_unix.aardvarkol.com

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and Atari 2600VCS game consoles
Received on Thu Jun 12 1997 - 22:21:59 BST

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