I put this in the quick questions thread twice but since I never got an answer I guess it needs a thread. I have this old windows 3.1 machine and I was wondering what I would need to get it online. It has a serial port and a modem but I don't have dial up. I heard somewhere that a null modem might work but would I hook it up to another computer and use it like a bridge?
"Null-modem" means a direct cable connection between two computers' serial ports, simulating the effect of a modem-to-modem dialup connection without actually involving the telephone system. If you have another computer with a serial port (you can get USB serial ports), you could connect the two with a null-modem cable and that'd take care of the hardware side of things.
There's still the software side to contend with, though. A serial connection isn't a network connection by itself; you have to use [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_Line_Internet_Protocol]SLIP[/url] or [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point-to-Point_Protocol]PPP[/url] to turn it into something that supports TCP/IP.
Well if you go at a flea market, you might be able to grab a PCI or [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industry_standard_architecture]ISA[/url] NIC.
Not sure if it's gonna work with 3.1 but I have a PCI Realtek NIC that works on 95.
Thank you, I can run it through my FTP server I guess but I am going to have to get a null modem first.
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[QUOTE=ze beaver;29732900]Well if you go at a flea market, you might be able to grab a PCI or [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industry_standard_architecture]ISA[/url] NIC.
Not sure if it's gonna work with 3.1 but I have a PCI Realtek NIC that works on 95.[/QUOTE]
Its a Laptop. I would have done that If it had a ISA or PCI bus.
I found this: [url]http://werebuild.eu/wiki/Egypt/Howto_PPP[/url]
It will probably work if you have a modem. I'm not 100% sure if it will work just by connecting the two modems together, however I do recall doing file transfers between old Macs by going modem-modem (I probably had some simple circuit that puts some voltage on the line though).
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