I have a video going up on youtube of it booting the system. I set the baud rate at 9600 and I will post a link to the debian article I used to setup the port on debian. I ran into a snag on the new ubuntu which has disabled the serial output for TTY/Console which made me abandon the ubuntu route. Has to do with a package update they did around ubuntu 7 that caused a bug in it. Also when setting it up, I had an issue where I didn't have VT220 set, so I had to re-read the article and figured out after I connected that I needed to set the terminal emulation. Keep in mind these instructions (except apple II part) will work with VT220 terminals as a whole. Altogether, I am very happy how it worked out and I look forward to playing with it more in the future. The keyboard on the Apple II is hard to type on unless you are significantly higher than the keyboard. so make sure either your apple is lower than your elbows or your chair can go pretty high. if anyone else gets it working, post your pics/vids too!