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excerpt: "Several years ago Mike Mitchell wrote a SuperBASIC program that got the QL on line with a modem. It was far from perfect, particularly as the QL has difficulty receiving data at the serial port, but it was widely copied in newsletters. Independently, Mike Jonas wanted to use an unexpanded QL to access a remote…"
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# Jonas_Term

Several years ago Mike Mitchell wrote a SuperBASIC program that got the QL on line with a modem.

It was far from perfect, particularly as the QL has difficulty receiving data at the serial port, but it was widely copied in newsletters.

Independently, Mike Jonas wanted to use an unexpanded QL to access a remote computer from home to use an EMACS editor (instead of Quill).