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/...
Re:Working from home on the //c+
by strategarius on Friday April 17, 2020 @10:28PM
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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'.
Re:Working from home on the //c+
by uk_programmer on Saturday April 18, 2020 @02:51AM
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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.
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.
Re:Working from home on the //c+
by LeoPanthera on Friday April 17, 2020 @10:26PM
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Yes, he's using a terminal emulator, and a hardware device which does serial-to-wifi.
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.