On Sat, 05 Feb 2005 22:45:24 +1300, Daryn Hanright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey > > Thought you guys & gals might be interested in this. I've got this old 1986 > vintage Tandy 102. Its quite common for people who own this delightful wee > machine to use it as a remote terminal logged into a Linux box. I've used it > that way on Red Hat/Fedora systems, and now ubuntu. 40x8 display ain't the > best,but hey? > > The other night I was trying to get the thing doing the same thing on my xbox > running Xebian Linux. And I got it working! Really quite a neat set-up. Took > a pic of it here: > > http://www.planetnz.com/palmheads/tandy.php#dumb > > Key thing was to plug a USB -> Serial converter into a XBox Controller -> USB > plug converter. And run a getty on /dev/ttyUSB0 instead of a serial port > (which doesn't exist on a xbox). > > On another topic altogether, have gotta say I am totally impressed with Ubuntu > Linux. The whole Debian/apt-get/synaptic thing is fabulous. I don't know how > many times I've thought "it would be quite nice to install that..." only to go > "apt-get install insert_great_app_here" and its just been there! I could do > the > same thing using Fedora Core 1 & 3 with apt-get (using 3rd party > repositories), > it just doesn't feel as clean as Ubuntu. For instance I'd written a wee > perl/Tk script that uses Gnome's Sticky Notes app to transfer files to the > PalmPilot using pilot-link > (http://www.planetnz.com/palmheads/myhacks.php#sticky). It was just a breeze > to get it working again with Ubuntu. Only had to install a couple of Perl > modules which it didn't have. Everything else was just apt-get'ed. Great! > > Anyway, keep happy everyone. Am always learning something from following all > the > different discussions on this list! > > cheers > Daryn > Great Work. Looks Neato.
Would be cool if we could see it at a meeting ;) -- --Ben Devine
