Using just about every technology since the telegraph to get a 1999 palmtop online at 35,000 ft ✈️

[zedstarr@mastodon.online]

Using just about every technology since the telegraph to get a 1999 palmtop online at 35,000 ft ️

EPOC browser → HTTP → TCP/IP → PPP → RS-232 at a blistering 115,200 baud → USB serial adapter → Android phone running slirp (a 1995 SLIP/PPP emulator) → Wi-Fi → KLM's cabin server → satellite antenna aimed by GPS → a satellite → a ground station → the internet.

And back. To load one text-only news page.

Worth it.

#psion #epoc #retrocomputing

[3rz@freiburg.social]

@zedstarr THERE’S A CRUMB ON YOUR KEYBOARD

(nice set- and writeup!)

[zedstarr@mastodon.online]

@3rz those KLM sandwiches are the best!

[mmu_man@m.g3l.org]

@zedstarr cc @ActionRetro

[oya3un@piaille.fr]

@zedstarr @3rz Agree. Hot beverage with that, and you'll go slirp and slurp.