[Suns-at-Home] Apple Terminal

[Scott Stevens]

On Tue, 31 Jul 2007 20:56:21 +0200
Ben Lewis <benjamin.lewis@belgacom.net> wrote:

> Hello Folks
> 
> All this talk lately about using old Apple machines as serial  
> terminals came to a head this weekend when a friend emailed me these  
> links saying "Seen these?"
> 
> http://www.dataswamp.net/apple2eserialterm/
> 
> http://www.bytecellar.com/archives/000113.php
> 
> Not to be outdone I whipped up my own creation and sent him a picture  
> right back :-
> 
> http://www.ipcress.net/images/ColourClassicTerminal.jpg
> 
> That's NSCA Telnet running on Mac OS System 7. Thinking that serial  
> connections were now old hat I fitted a TCP/IP network card from an  
> old Performa and installed the Apple Open Transport extensions and  
> hey presto, "it just works" :)
> 
> Ok I know it's not rocket science but it whiled away a rainy sunday  
> afternoon.
> 

Mine is an X-terminal.  

http://sasteven.multics.org/MacSE30/MacSE30.html

I don't know if you can even run NetBSD on a Color Classic.  An SE/30 is a far superior machine for that purpose.  It was awhile later before Apple produced any hardware better than the SE/30, imho.