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.
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'.