On May 12, 2005, at 11:00 AM, Ledbetter, Scott E wrote:

My 13 year old 8th grade son runs Linux on his Xbox, and Hercules
on our
desktop Linux systems.  I'll have to ask him if he ever got around to
running Herc and MVS on his Xbox.  I'm pretty sure he did, but I can't
keep up with all the neat stuff he does. The biggest pain about
running
Linux on the Xbox is the on screen keyboard that you have to use.


It's relatively easy and cheap to graft a plain old USB keyboard to an Xbox controller tail and have a keyboard for the box. The control *is* in fact just USB with an extra line, and if you wire the remaining wires correctly, you have a working keyboard.

For anyone thinking running Hercules is too much trouble or too
hard or
whatever, I came home from work one day and he had MVS running
under VM
under Hercules on Linux. He had gotten all the information about
how to
do this from the Internet.  When he complained about MVS console
configuration and figuring out how to get it to work with VM, I
knew he
had felt all the pain he ever needed to feel about mainframes.

That is *so* cool.

Adam

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