Apple //e as Linux serial terminal

This is an Apple //e running as a serial terminal connected to a Gentoo Linux PC. The terminal software is MODEM.MGR.

The dark green band you see on the screen periodically is just an issue of lack of frequency sync between the camera and monitor.

Featuring: top (process monitor), linux_logo (Linux ASCII art logos), weechat (IRC client), weatherspect (ASCII art weather display), nano (text editor), lynx (web browser), vim (text editor), vnstat (aggregate bandwidth tracker), slurm (realtime bandwidth monitor).

A HOWTO for using your Apple //e as a serial terminal can be found at my website - http://www.dataswamp.net

Category:

Science & Technology

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• apple
• //e
• iie
• ii
• serial
• terminal
• gentoo
• gnu
• linux
• gnu/linux
• console
• bash
• debian
• top
• linux_logo
• weechat
• weatherspect
• nano
• lynx
• vim
• vnstat
• slurm

[kiyotewolf]

What is a Bogomip?

[Quag7]

@kiyotewolf There's a Wikipedia article on it. From that article: "An oft-quoted definition of the term is "the number of million times per second a processor can do absolutely nothing." - it is a rough, imprecise way of comparing the speed of processors - at least in looping and "doing nothing."

[leovailati]

Next time

$ telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl

=D

[Quag7]

@leovailati Actually I tried that but the 9600 limit severely impacted the coolness of the movie. However, I may attempt it with one of my DECs...

[syonastarlight]

I love all the youtubers who immediately say something is fake having no clue what they are seeing.

You could try 2 apples together with a null modem cable for a simple chat system :D

[Quag7]

I don't think you understand what is going on here.

The Apple is hooked up as a *serial terminal* to a system with exactly those specs. So of course it would show that. What would you expect it to show?

[darkdevil905]

@syonastarlight This guys are named as trolls and we both think they are stupid but cool

[EarninMoney]

Linux Version 2.6.26-gentoo-r3 Compiled#3 SMP PREEMP Wed Dec 3 01:31:37

Two 2.67GHz intel Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 6700 @ 2.66GHz Processors :2

endurance

[GaNeXe]

I so want that keyboard =_=

[tehmattbookpro]

@Quag7 Yeah, don't waste your breath. These guys wouldn't know their asshole from a pop tart.

[HTPtheFirst]

I just did my first null modem connection with two virtual machines. I'll probably start using a real null modem cable soon. I need to get a serial PCI card (my current computers have no internal serial ports right now), obviously a null modem cable, and then a 9-pin to 25-pin adapter for the client I'll be using, a Panasonic Sr. Partner with MTERM.

Although maybe I'm not truly sure how many pins the serial port has, I'll have to check again later.

[ross817]

It would be so cool if they still made those green-and-black monochrome displays for modern computers.

I don't know why I want one so badly, but it just sounds darn cool to run linux with compiz on a crappy 1980s style monitor.