23yo Apple //c serving as Mac OS X text terminal

[blakespot]

Inspired by a few enterprising folks, I've setup an Apple //c on my office desk to serve as an OS X text terminal across a 9600bps serial link to my Mac mini.

http://www.bytecellar.com/archives/000113.php

Good stuff. Works great! See writeup and photos. Cheers.




blakespot

 

[bigandy]

i love it, and i want one.


nice one, thanks for highlighting this, blakespot

 

[madmax_2069]

very nice blake, its good to see it being used and that is can still lead a productive life.

very nice

 

[blakespot]

http://digg.com/apple/23yo_Apple_c_Tied_to_Mac_mini_as_Serial_OS_X_Dumb_Terminal

digg it if you like the story. thanks!




blakespot

 

[David Schmidt]

Another Apple-as-terminal, with funny how-to

Here's my favorite Apple-as-terminal story. It's got a funny, detailed walk-through for setting one up yourself:
http://www.dataswamp.net/apple2eserialterm/

 

[milatchi]

Wow, excellent! The thought of doing this had crossed my mind. I have a Apple //c and Apple /// monitor lying around, but I really haven't had the time to research and implement it.

My current question (outside of the serial cable pinouts) concerns getting the terminal software on 5.25 AppleDOS floppy disks.

 

[David Schmidt]

My current question (outside of the serial cable pinouts) concerns getting the terminal software on 5.25 AppleDOS floppy disks.

This page has some good details on that particular task:
http://www.dataswamp.net/apple2eserialterm/#procureterm

 

[gkarris]

That's kinda cool. Does that mean you can use any old terminal or PC with a terminal program?

I'd like to use my TRS-80...

 

[David Schmidt]

Does that mean you can use any old terminal or PC with a terminal program?

Sure. How much utility you get out of it will be in direct proportion to how easily the old keyboard maps to things you want to do (i.e. ctrl-C, whatever) and how well the screen maps or supports the kinds of things you want to run. If you have a bunch of console apps that manipulate the screen a lot with curses libraries, you might have more trouble. If you just want to connect and type 'ls,' it'll work.