This post brought back great memories of connecting my Amiga to the net ~1991. The greatest triumph at the time was FTPing synth patches for my Yamaha DX7 from a server in Texas to my unix account at UWA, downloading it to the Amiga via zmodem as the author did, then uploading via the second serial port to the DX7 with a serial to din (MIDI) cable made with 2 sockets, 2 wires and a resistor. I couldn't really believe it when it all worked.