Martin's question is not nonsensical, and I imagine he understands the applicable networking concepts.
His goal is to replicate the original dialup user experience and add a useful modern component - it's hard to justify keeping large machinery around if it's only there to look at. By adding the Google part, even if text-only, he can bring a bit of modern use to ancient but nostalgic hardware. =] -- Anders Nelson +1 (517) 775-6129 www.erogear.com On Mon, Jan 22, 2018 at 3:17 AM, Liam Proven via cctalk < [email protected]> wrote: > On 16 January 2018 at 09:19, Martin Meiner via cctech > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > It has always been my aim to be able toconnect a modem or an acoustic > coupler directly to one of my ASCII terminals,dial a number and be > connected…with Google! > > > > Something like Google-interface but convertedto match ASCII terminals > (only text, very simple graphics). > > Your question is nonsensical. An internet connection is an Internet > connection. What you run over it is up to you. > > Whereas I doubt a '70s mini will have a text-mode browser such as > Lynx, Links or W3M, many will have TCP/IP. Just telnet to a Linux box > and run one of those, or something akin. > > From your question, I suspect you don't understand how TCP/IP and the > WWW work. You need to learn that first before you can do this. It's > not very hard or super-complex. > > -- > Liam Proven • Profile: https://about.me/liamproven > Email: [email protected] • Google Mail/Hangouts/Plus: [email protected] > Twitter/Facebook/Flickr: lproven • Skype/LinkedIn: liamproven > UK: +44 7939-087884 • ČR (+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal): +420 702 829 053 >
