Zterm was *the* serial terminal under 68k, maybe it also did telnet, no memories of that right now.
If you want "the terminal" in the sense of a comamnd prompt prepare to be baffled: there is *NONE *on the old macs and hardware doesn't support a native terminal mode. Even NetBSD that, by the way, boots on 68k machines (but I have no idea if it does on your exact model) uses a terminal emulation (slooow, and with an ugly font) white on black. If instead you wish to run unix commands... MPW is what you want. It's *something akin to a terminal* and the developement console system engineers actually used to develop the Mac from bottom up (and it comes from the "Lisa" times, IIRC) it isn't really a terminal... it's... something. They called it a *worksheet. *In practice, it's like opening a simpletext or bbcode lite session. Then you type a command, on any line, and the strike *enter* (enter... the *enter key*, the one on the dial pad, not the return one — its used to have symbol like this: http://www.macinminutes.co.uk/images/quickies/keys/numeric_enter.jpg ) and the the result of the command appears in the lower lines. But it still IS a text document. it doesn't scroll automatically, it doesn't clean up old lines, it has no history, but it doesn't delete lines either, you can run the same command from the same line over and over again... a worksheet. Yes it made no sense, but I suggest you try it , if you get your hands on it. :) On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 22:24, Christian Wacker <[email protected]>wrote: > Simple Google came up with http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacTerminal as > a possible Terminal emulator. Good luck finding it. I haven't found > it. > > On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 2:49 PM, Ivan Kowalenko <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Hello all. I just read about someone over at Tumblr who had managed to > rig > > up an old VT220 terminal to work with his Mac Pro > > (http://jstn.cc/post/8692501831). This got me thinking, I use the > terminal a > > fair amount, and I have a Mac Classic II. I've been looking for a use for > > this Mac Classic II for a long time, and so far all it's done is provide > me > > with a place to put my clock radio so that the snooze button is > > uncomfortably high compared to my bed. > > I'm wondering if there's something I can do to use this Mac Classic II > with > > my MacBook Pro. Perhaps as a terminal (using terminal emulation software > on > > the Classic side, obviously), or something else that's somewhat useful > > (read-out of RSS or Twitter feeds, maybe? Any other ideas?). The Classic > II > > is running System 7 right now, and remarkably has a working HDD (though I > > may need to whack it to get it spinning again) > > Any ideas on if this is even possible (I don't know much about what was > out > > there in the Mac System 6/7 days, since my dad was a staunch DOS > supporter, > > and being 9 I didn't have much of a choice in it at all), if there is > even a > > terminal emulator, or if a serial connection would physically work. > > Thanks for any info you can give me! Have a good day! > > ---------------------------------------------------- > > Ivan Kowalenko > > w: http://ivankowalenko.com > > e: [email protected] > > p: 856-270-6049 > > > > > > -- > The blog is back. If you don't like it, don't complain, just comment. > http://pizzaboy192.com/blog/ > (I now haz a .com) > > -- > ----- > You received this message because you are a member of the Vintage Macs > group. > The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml and our > netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To leave this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs > > Support for older Macs: http://lowendmac.com/services/ -- ----- You received this message because you are a member of the Vintage Macs group. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To leave this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs Support for older Macs: http://lowendmac.com/services/
