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Can anyone explain what we are seeing here? I’ve never had an Apple II, unfortunately.

The guy is running a terminal emulator on the Apple II? Or does it understand vt220 instructions natively?

What is this interface, an editor?

Very cool stuff nonetheless.

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Proterm is my guess

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ProTERM

Edit: actually the author said it was modem mgr.

http://www.apple2.org.za/gswv/a2zine/GS.WorldView/v1999/Oct/...

I saw Apple II, however I also don't understand from the article, what's the author work with? No even brief project description, no code, no usage context... Maybe the article is just a beginning of some bigger story. Everything is too unclear. Would be nice to hear comments from the author.

The guy is running a terminal emulator on the Apple II?

It looks like it's exactly that. The zany CHIP computer 'wifi modem' used to connect is itself a more powerful computer than the vintage 'terminal'.

You can do this with just the serial port and a USB to serial converter with something like a RPi that will emulate a modem for you.

http://podsix.org/articles/pimodem/

However that can be replaced with a plipbox (I believe he has open sourced it and you can build your own).

http://lallafa.de/blog/amiga-projects/plipbox/

You can just plug this into the back of your PC. This is a good demonstration of how it all works.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egi3MiSgV1k

No doubt. I just meant it as yet-another mildly entertaining way to think about exponential growth. Apple put this turd out about a decade after their first computer. It's, at best, about four times faster than the original.

30 years after it was discontinued, you need a computer many thousands of times more powerful to connect the //c+ to a network. That computer costs $9.

Yes, he's using a terminal emulator, and a hardware device which does serial-to-wifi.

The application running is irssi, if that's what you're asking.

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