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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.




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