Re: Powerbook150 Dumb Terminal


Subject: Re: Powerbook150 Dumb Terminal
From: Christopher F. Baum (baum@bc.edu)
Date: Fri Aug 27 1999 - 06:25:22 MDT


Very interesting... zterm would work fine for this, I suspect

http://hyperarchive.lcs.mit.edu/cgi-bin/NewSearch?key=zterm

Of course this is a bit harder to accomplish with my Blue n White, unless I
look for one of those USB->serial adapters...

Kit Baum

--On Thu, Aug 26, 1999 2:42 PM -0600 Mark Fassler <fassler@frii.com> wrote:

> If you have a free modem or printer port on your G3, then you can easily
> use your Powerbook as a dumb terminal.
>
> - Add a line in your /etc/inittab file to put a tty on it's free port
>
> - Hook a serial cable from the free port on the G3 to the printer port
> on the Powerbook.
>
> - Use a terminal emulator on the Powerbook to access the serial tty
>
> The line to add in /etc/inittab will look something like this:
>
> S1:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty ttyS0 DT9600 vt100
>
> (The "ttyS0" part decides which serial/printer port to use. I'm not sure
> which is which.)
>
> Then, as root, type: init q to tell init to reread the inittab file.
> You can now run a dumb terminal off of that port.
>
> Connect the Powerbook to the G3.
>
> You will then need to run a terminal emulator of some kind on your
> Powerbook. (This is where I get lost, I don't know MacOS or Mac software
> very well.) I know that later versions of ClarisWorks came with a
> terminal emulator. You can probably download a free/share-ware program
> from download.com.
>
> Tell the terminal emulator (on the Powerbook) to use the printer port, at
> 9600 baud (or whatever speed you've chosen in inittab), and that this is a
> direct serial connection, not a modem. Oh, and tell it to use vt100
> emulation, not ANSI.
>
> --
> Mark Fassler
> fassler@frii.com
>
>
> Adam Price wrote...
>>
>> My girlfriend has a Powerbook 150 which she has finally decided is too
>> slow for modern purposes, and has dropped it into my talons. I have
>> seen on the 68klinux page that the 150 will boot 68k linux, but the
>> monitor and keyboard are as of yet unsupported, which makes it a virtual
>> dead-end. (I am not in the keyboard driver writing business)
>>
>> I wonder if it would be possible to hook up the 150 to my G3 as a
>> dumb terminal for YDLChampion. For reference, the 150 has a printer
>> port and a SCSI port and nothing else. Would I need to buy an ethernet
>> card? Any experience with this sort of thing out there? Any other
>> recommendations for things to do with the 150?
>>
>> -Adam
>>
>>

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