Using telnet on local network

Gene Heskett gheskett at wdtv.com
Sat Oct 13 01:57:16 UTC 2012


On Friday 12 October 2012 21:56:43 Liam Proven did opine:

> On 13 October 2012 02:31, Gene Heskett <gheskett at wdtv.com> wrote:
> > Yep, basically getting a backup done as the main hard drive is getting
> > very long in the hours dept and starting to suffer from stiction.
> > 
> > But we are doing things on it we never ever dreamed about in 1990. I
> > don't have it up and running, but one of the guys actually has a
> > simple web server running on his, so folks can actually browse, and
> > download stuff from it.
> > 
> > Some very talented people have come on board the coco scene in the
> > last 4 or 5 years, and magic is now being rather routinely done on
> > the old girls.
> 
> Cool! Any links?
> 
> The CoCo never really made it big in Europe - the
> kinda-sorta-compatible Dragon 32 and 64 were bigger, and they were
> minority machines.
> 
> But there's amazing, inspiring stuff being done on '80s 8-bitters
> these days: I've personally Tweeted from a Sinclair ZX Spectrum that
> was connected to the Internet over broadband by an Ethernet adaptor
> and a TCP/IP stack. Just incredible.
> 
> There's similar stuff on the Commodore 64.
> 
> The Acorn BBC Micro now can have 1MB of RAM, Flash storage and a
> working USB port.
> 
> Got any links to the state of the CoCo art, at all?

Google for Drivewire, and Nitros9.

Cheers, Gene
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