Oldest computer on the internet?

Dan Williams williams.dan at gmail.com
Mon Dec 20 20:12:35 CST 2004


On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 10:45:56 -0800, Scarletdown
<gsutton9503 at wavecable.com> wrote:
> Ashley Carder wrote:
> 
> >Does anyone know what the oldest documented functional computer is that is connected to the internet?
> >
> >
> 
> I know this was a few years ago, so I don't know what its status is
> today.  But I remember on comp.sys.tamdy, someone posted an announcement
> that he had a TRS-80 of some sort (most likely a Model III) set up as a
> telnettable BBS.
> 
> And if I ever get around to playing with SLIP and PLIP, I plan on
> eventually hooking up old systems (such as my TI-99/4a and KayPro II) to
> a Linux box so that they can access the Internet via a shell account.
> 
> --
> Scarletdown
> 
> 
Check this out, it works quite well. I managed to get an old BBS on my
cpc working over the we for a while, but now I don't have the room. It
will do other things as well if you play with it.

http://www.telbbs.com/

Dan



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