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Index of Subjects I know for a fact that Chebucto is host to several text based user groups (Apple II, Atari, Commodore, CP/M and some others) and that text based access is absolutely a must. There are many others as well using lowend PC's locally that need text based access not counting the many, myself included, who greatly prefer the text based dial-up Lynx over PPP access anyday as the speed and functionality of Lynx is superb compared to bloatware graphic browsers. Telnet connections are still too buggy and tend to lock much of the time to totally replace dial-up. Tony Cianfaglione CCN Tech / Userhelp ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- On Sat, 7 Aug 1999, Ian White wrote: > > On Aug 5, 11:00am, Jeff Warnica wrote: > > > > I think it will be several years yet before Community Nets can > > move completely away from standard text logins. At this time it is > > easy for the financially disadvantaged to get older computers (ranging > > up to 386's and low-end 486's), since these are basically give-away > > items. However, these machines are not suitable for running current > > Internet apps. For that, you need a high-end 486 (486DX4/100 w/16M RAM > > and 500M HD minimum), or more preferable, a Pentium class machine. > [snip] > > I would like to get comments from other CSuite users/sites on the > > above. > > This is one of the major things that has come up from VTN users since the > announcement of upcoming PPP. Many users with lowend machines fear that > they are going to lose their connection because their machine can't handle > PPP. Although there are many users saying "Oh boy graphics!" theres just > as many saying "Please don't do anything to leave us behind".
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