Set up an Apple II as an OS X terminal
Jun 27, '07 07:30:00AM
Contributed by: pdw
I set up an old Apple IIc as a terminal for my Mac mini; you can read the full details of the project in this post. The basic steps involved are as follows:
- Connect the Apple II serial cable to a Serial-USB Adaptor
- Load terminal emulation software on Apple IIc
- Use screen to connect and run getty
Ideally one should configure getty to run via ttys, yet something (USB controller?) hangs on the two different Mac Minis I've tried this on, mucking things up. However, a benifit of using screen is the ability to cut-and-paste between machines.
[robg adds: Definitely not your normal OS X hint, and there are obviously many easier solutions. Still, putting an old Apple ][ to work like this is pretty cool.]
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