Ironically, I'm a month late for the Winter Challenge. (And, really, deep down, this isn't that much of a technical accomplishment. As was pointed out on Vintage Computer Forum, any old system that has a serial connection, plus a keyboard and display, is capable of the feat.

For the real RetroChallenge, I'll probably try it with an SE/30 running NetBSD instead of an Itanium server running Linux. Getting the SE/30 online will be the big challenge there.

And, if I was a programmer, I'd try to hack together a minimal PPP-TCP/IP-telnet all-in-one app to have true "internet connection" on the 128, but I'm not sure if that would even be possible on a 400K disk with 128K of RAM.