Has anyone hooked up linux this dumb terminals? Could you advise me on how to go about this and what equiptment is necessary.
by Michael Ghe » Tue, 12 Dec 1995 04:00:00
Has anyone hooked up linux this dumb terminals? Could you advise me on how to go about this and what equiptment is necessary.
by root » Tue, 12 Dec 1995 04:00:00
Ergo, a bunch of us got together and set up a linux box for e-mail,
etc., for the students. (See http://www.veryComputer.com/ for more info.)
They were giving away bunch of vt100s, circa 1970, and we wanted to use
them, but as we had no College sanction (and they were none too happy
with our little project), we would have had to place them in the same
room as the server (not very practical; it was the down room of a friend
of mine) or run RJ45 out the window to the ba*t, where the terminals
would have been promptly circular-filed.
In short, no, but I would like to hear from someone who did, and I
imagine that the thing to do would be to see the Boca-mini-howto and use
a multi-com-port card to hook 'em all in. Should be relatively
painless.
Drop me a note letting me know if you decide to do it, how t turned out,
etc.
Todd Lewis
VP Networking
Cheney Communications Company
> Has anyone hooked up linux this dumb terminals? Could you advise me on how to go about this and what equiptment is necessary.
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