>how do I write stuff to disk? Can I hook it up to my PC or Amiga using a serial cable or something similar and use a transfer program, like on the miggy?
I'm pretty sure there was a program called StarCommander...
http://sta.c64.org/sc.html ...that let you hook an old 1541 to a PC and read/write data. Using that you'd be able to get stuff off the net onto disk.