Using a Rasp Pi is actually pretty easy. Hooking up an RS-232 shifter to the on-board serial port lets you use Model 100 as a console to the Rasp Pi. http://www.savagehomeautomation.com/projects/raspberry-pi-installing-a-rs232-serial-port.html
>From there, you can pretty much do anything in Linux - as long as it's text based from the command line. I've been toying with the idea of doing some retro computing things, but using the Rasp Pi as the host and hooking up an old PC (or a terminal, if I can find one for a reasonable price). With people like Eric S. Raymond "rescuing" the old text-based games (like Super Star Trek and Advent(ure)), you can still have a fun time, and pretend that you are young again. On Fri, Jun 16, 2017 at 3:44 PM, Mike Stein <[email protected]> wrote: > Well, one way or another we've been talking about it for what, five, six > years now, so it'll be nice to see it actually happen; Ken's proposal > certainly sounds ambitious. Didn't someone already have a Pi connected as a > bridge? Gonna have to browse the archive... > > I've got a few ESP8266 modules somewhere, so I'm ready! > > I just hope it doesn't go the way of the CP/M project... > > m > > ----- Original Message ----- > *From:* John R. Hogerhuis <[email protected]> > *To:* [email protected] > *Sent:* Friday, June 16, 2017 3:05 PM > *Subject:* Re: [M100] Wifi232 serial wfi modem > > > > On Fri, Jun 16, 2017 at 11:09 AM, Mike Stein <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hate to be a party-pooper but although it could be fun it seems to me >> that we're reinventing the wheel with no real place to roll to... >> > > Yes Mike you're being a party pooper :-) > > I kind of like the idea of putting the "server" on the attached gadget > just for that reason. Battery powered Pi. Then you're self sufficient with > the device and an internet connection. > > So the device runs telnet, w3m, mutt, pine/vim/emacs > > No 3rd party BBS required, necessarily. > > The other way to go is device + Model 100 specific telnet BBS. I like the > idea of a BBS if someone wants to run it. Kurt mentioned one above. > > -- John. > > -- Ron Lauzon - rlauzon at acm dot org Homepage: http://webpages.charter.net/rlauzon/ Weblog: http://ronsapartment.blogspot.com/ DNRC: Lord of All Things That Are Fattening "To be sure, conservative radio talk show hosts have a built-in audience unavailable to liberals: People driving cars to some sort of job." - Ann Coulter Microsoft Free since July 06, 2001 Running Ubuntu 16.04
