On Sun, Feb 06, 2005 at 08:47:50AM +1300, Ben Devine wrote: > 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 >
Well next time there is a meeting I'II see if I can grab a TV set from somewhere & being the xbox with Xebian & the Tandy along. Good for a laugh anyway! cheers Daryn ========================== The PalmHeads http://www.planetnz.com/palmheads
