rietveld Posted December 12, 2020 Share Posted December 12, 2020 Just enjoying my Saturday morning coffee while reading todays news Using my Coleco Adam computer to Google and read the latest news from CNN https://imgur.com/gallery/m6TEBVB 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ed1475 Posted December 12, 2020 Share Posted December 12, 2020 Awesome! How were you able to do it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rietveld Posted December 12, 2020 Author Share Posted December 12, 2020 (edited) 1 hour ago, ed1475 said: Awesome! How were you able to do it? I set up a telnet server on my Linux laptop and connected to my home's wifi. Then I Telnet into my homes's IP using a wifi modem thats connected to an Orphanware serial card. So instead of Telneting into someone elses BBS i am Telneting into my linux box and using LYNX to connect to the internet. This way I can surf the entire web instead of just a BBS. Text only sites or ones using minimal graphics look the best. Sites like lite.cnn.com or text.npr.org look great Edited December 12, 2020 by rietveld Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ed1475 Posted December 12, 2020 Share Posted December 12, 2020 (edited) 1 hour ago, rietveld said: I set up a telnet server on my Linux laptop and connected to my home's wifi. Then I Telnet into my homes's IP using a wifi modem thats connected to an Orphanware serial card. So instead of Telneting into someone elses BBS i am Telneting into my linux box and using LYNX to connect to the internet. This way I can surf the entire web instead of just a BBS. Text only sites or ones using minimal graphics look the best. Sites like lite.cnn.com or text.npr.org look great Very Cool! I have LYNX on my 1995 Packard Bell Windows 95 computer. I've used it to visit the old Gopher protocol sites that are proxies for Wikipedia, CNN and Reddit. I didn't think it would be possible with an ADAM. Edited December 12, 2020 by ed1475 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rietveld Posted December 12, 2020 Author Share Posted December 12, 2020 (edited) 22 minutes ago, ed1475 said: Very Cool! I have LYNX on my 1995 Packard Bell Windows 95 computer. I've used it to visit the old Gopher protocol sites that are proxies for Wikipedia, CNN and Reddit. I didn't think it would be possible with an ADAM. As long as the Term software can do VT52 or VT100. Zmodem seems to at least emate a VT52 terminal Edited December 12, 2020 by rietveld 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NIAD Posted December 13, 2020 Share Posted December 13, 2020 Pretty cool to hear about and thanks for sharing. I've got the WiModem232 by Jim Drew and spent way to much time playing around with it last weekend on an ADAM with the new MIB238 Interface Card that was designed by Eric Pearson and produced by John Lundy. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rietveld Posted December 13, 2020 Author Share Posted December 13, 2020 11 hours ago, NIAD said: Pretty cool to hear about and thanks for sharing. I've got the WiModem232 by Jim Drew and spent way to much time playing around with it last weekend on an ADAM with the new MIB238 Interface Card that was designed by Eric Pearson and produced by John Lundy. If you have a linux machine hanging around you can do the same thing You can use a Linux box (pi, laptop, ect) Sudo app-get install telnetd Sudo app-get install lynx for internet Make sure your linux machine is connected to your wifi. Connect your Adam by booting up your terminal software AT to connect to your wifi modem ATDT xxx.xxx.x.xx using your wifi's IP This will connect you to the linux box. Just log in using your linux user name and password. You need to set your TERM type. If you are using ZMODEM it will be VT52. type TERM=vt52 now you can use LYNX to connect you to the web type lynx google.com to navigate to the GOOGLE browser 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mozartpc27 Posted December 13, 2020 Share Posted December 13, 2020 I have a Coleco ADAM, but don't have it set up to do that. However, I am posting this post right now from my Commodore 128! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rietveld Posted December 13, 2020 Author Share Posted December 13, 2020 6 hours ago, mozartpc27 said: I have a Coleco ADAM, but don't have it set up to do that. However, I am posting this post right now from my Commodore 128! I am trying to push the Adam a bit more by using it to read and write my email. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Serguei2 Posted December 14, 2020 Share Posted December 14, 2020 Does the internet run faster, slower or the same on Coleco Adams? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rietveld Posted December 14, 2020 Author Share Posted December 14, 2020 (edited) 23 hours ago, Serguei2 said: Does the internet run faster, slower or the same on Coleco Adams? 19,200 is fast enough for me. I dont need to travel the web any faster than that Edited December 14, 2020 by rietveld Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pixelboy Posted December 14, 2020 Share Posted December 14, 2020 18 minutes ago, rietveld said: 19,200 is fast enough for me. I dont need to travel the web any faster than that Yeah, now get off my lawn, you whippersnapper! ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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