So I turn 27 on January 9th (tomorrow for reference from the posting of this topic). and I decided to do something different. Since most people i know are going to be at work (and I being a student and home business person, I have some downtime) I decided to lay out what think Will be a fun project. I am have a spare machine, and an Apple //e I am going to make work together in magical TTY Serial command-line love.
The setup I have: (even though I know it's been done before)
1x Apple //e (Enhanced) Platinum
128KB RAM (64KB RAM, 64KB Expansion).
Floppy Controller with 2 Disk 2 5.25" Floppy drives.
Stack of floppies
SuperSerial card with null-modem cable.
Color Composite Monitor //e (Yup my coveted color composite monitor!)
Linux Box
Generic Gigabyte GA-M68M-S2P (rev 2.3) Motherboard
AMD Athlon 64 X2 2.8Ghz AM2 CPU w/ 2MB L2 Cache
2GB PC2-800 RAM
GeForce 8400GS 256MB PCI-E video card
250GB Samsung SpinPoint HDD w/ 8MB Cache and 7200RPM (SATA)
Apple OEM'd DVD-RW from PowerMac G4 MDD
Dell Inspiron 2300 Case (hacked board in with necessary mods to get power button and lights working)
Gonna attempt with Ubuntu Linux 11.04 Alternate.
I have always wanted to play with a terminal pretending I am time-sharing with a mainframe with other users. Sadly I am not old enough or priviledged enough to use a real mainframe or share in the bliss of the 70's with the big baheamoth machines, but this will get me close enough. I will catalog my processor to show I can do it, and hopefully one of the posts on this topic will be from Lynx on the Apple II at (maybe) 115.6Kbps terminal speed. I think I found a way to do it on Ubuntu. I will have to see how it works out. I have all the software now (including Modem.MGR which is needed) and I am following part of the instructions from another site.
If I am going to spend my b-day alone. I am going to do it the way I want! Dangit!
The setup I have: (even though I know it's been done before)
1x Apple //e (Enhanced) Platinum
128KB RAM (64KB RAM, 64KB Expansion).
Floppy Controller with 2 Disk 2 5.25" Floppy drives.
Stack of floppies
SuperSerial card with null-modem cable.
Color Composite Monitor //e (Yup my coveted color composite monitor!)
Linux Box
Generic Gigabyte GA-M68M-S2P (rev 2.3) Motherboard
AMD Athlon 64 X2 2.8Ghz AM2 CPU w/ 2MB L2 Cache
2GB PC2-800 RAM
GeForce 8400GS 256MB PCI-E video card
250GB Samsung SpinPoint HDD w/ 8MB Cache and 7200RPM (SATA)
Apple OEM'd DVD-RW from PowerMac G4 MDD
Dell Inspiron 2300 Case (hacked board in with necessary mods to get power button and lights working)
Gonna attempt with Ubuntu Linux 11.04 Alternate.
I have always wanted to play with a terminal pretending I am time-sharing with a mainframe with other users. Sadly I am not old enough or priviledged enough to use a real mainframe or share in the bliss of the 70's with the big baheamoth machines, but this will get me close enough. I will catalog my processor to show I can do it, and hopefully one of the posts on this topic will be from Lynx on the Apple II at (maybe) 115.6Kbps terminal speed. I think I found a way to do it on Ubuntu. I will have to see how it works out. I have all the software now (including Modem.MGR which is needed) and I am following part of the instructions from another site.
If I am going to spend my b-day alone. I am going to do it the way I want! Dangit!