[Coco] How about a CoCo Web Browser?

[Ryan Pritchard]

One adder I should make is that I am still waiting on the USB adapter
as I just won the eBAY auction for it this week, so probably won't
receive it for another 2-3 weeks.  So I have not put said
understanding into practice, but I will likely blog about it on my
retrocomputing.ca site when I get the TCP/IP to serial port routing
working.  Not to mention posting my findings here.

On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 7:39 AM, Ryan Pritchard <coconut at pritchard.ca> wrote:
> I finally bought a USB to serial adapter to hook up to my Mac OS X system so
> that I can use a built in Linux/BSD port routing command to route a TCP/IP
> port to the serial adapter which will be connecting to either my CoCo 1, my
> Apple IIgs, or one of my GIMIX Ghost systems.  I know the functionality you
> look for already exists, in the various Linux and BSD distributions, and
> others on this list have pointed to TCP/IP to comm port packages in the past
> and have in fact hooked up their old school systems to the net to run their
> old BBS software or just to make their C64 or other server up web pages.
>
> So hop to it! ;)
>
> Regards,
>
> Ryan Pritchard
> Fun Extends All Basic Life Expectancies
>
>
>
> On 13-Mar-09, at 2:57 AM, George Ramsower wrote:
>
>> Could a Coco do what a cell phone browser does?
>>
>> Cell phones have limited graphics and the bandwidth isn't that good, I
>> expect. I don't know about this.
>> .It would seem that if it can be done on a 1.5 inch screen, perhaps the PC
>> interface can make it happen, simplify things for the coco and then it may
>> work.
>> But I wonder... Why bother?
>> I think it would be cool to make a system for retro computers to simulate
>> a dial up connection. Build a network just for this application and not even
>> try to "Browse The Net". The PC can take care of interfacing to the "NET"
>> and  direct the data from our retro computers to other retro computers and
>> we will be right where it all started many years ago. Apples can talk to
>> Amigas, Cocos can talk to Commodors... etc.
>> This way, all the OTHER retro computer users could join in on the fun. We
>> could get out our old BBS software and begin to do what we were doing many
>> years ago on our old dialup modems, only faster.
>> Us old farts could have fun emulating the FidoNet and the like. Text
>> graphics and all that.
>>
>> I could put my OS9 L2 BBS back into operation! That would be fun! .
>> This system would be emulated on a PC, whether it be Winderz, Linux, or
>> OSx Apple.  No special software for the old computers would be required, I
>> expect.
>> The PC software would have to emulate a modem. I would think the Hayes
>> system is in order.
>> I would not have a clue how this would be done, expecially with a BBS
>> system that can handle multiple modems, unless it uses multiple RS232 ports
>> to the PC. Otherwise, the Retro computer would have to be modified.
>>
>> I have no interest in "Browsing The Net" on a Coco. Sorry. However, it
>> would be a novelty to play with for a couple of hours and then I would just
>> go back to the PC and do it there.
>>
>> If one were to make software on a PC to enable this, then we could begin
>> contacting the other retro computer users and let them know about this.
>> I betcha there would be some interest!
>>
>>
>> This might be a dumb idea, but after a few brewskies, it sounds good right
>> now!
>>
>> George
>>
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Regards,

Ryan Pritchard
Fun Extends All Basic Life Expectancies