31 Oct
2004
31 Oct
'04
7:42 a.m.
Ok, I am replacing the HP terminal with either a Macintosh SE or an
Apple IIc+...
Environment = Linux running simh pdp11 running RSTS/E V7.0 (with
telnet from all my other machines)
Has to sit in a 2" x 2" square area on my desk, although I think all
three choices overflow the
intended area.
Please weigh in on the following three scenarios:
Door #1 - Macintosh SE
- Have an appletalk laser printer for this machine
- perhaps smaller footprint.
Door #2 - AppleIIc+
- Imagewriter instead of a laser printer if any printer at all.
- Coolness factor (8 on a scale of 1 to 10) 10 would be a real DEC
terminal..
- No Terminal software at hand.. (would beg someone to send me a
diskette)
Door #3 - HP Terminal
- already and still hooked up, and works ok... but.
- it's not *also* a computer that I want to get back on display.
Your comments requested.
31 Oct
31 Oct
7:07 a.m.
Ok, I am replacing the HP terminal with either a
Macintosh SE or an
Apple IIc+...
You should be bale to get better terminal emulation software for the
Mac, and a better keyboard.
Zane
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8:57 a.m.
On Sun, 31 Oct 2004, Jules Richardson wrote:
On Sun, 2004-10-31 at 13:42 -0800, Ron Hudson wrote:
Epson RC-20 wrist watch computer with imitation Z80
Matsucom/Ruputer wrist computer (some similarities to Palm Pilot)
Fossil wrist computer with Palm OS 4.1 (cancelled before release, but
there are rumors of prototypes)
Has to sit in a 2" x 2" square area on
my desk,
you might just about get the end of a power cable in that :-)
11:56 a.m.
On Oct 31, 2004, at 2:57 PM, Fred Cisin wrote:
On Sun, 31 Oct 2004, Jules Richardson wrote:
( .)v(. ) [my beady eyes crossing trying to read 80x24 off a watch]
:^)
On Sun, 2004-10-31 at 13:42 -0800, Ron Hudson
wrote:
Epson RC-20 wrist watch computer with imitation Z80
Matsucom/Ruputer wrist computer (some similarities to Palm Pilot)
Fossil wrist computer with Palm OS 4.1 (cancelled before release, but
there are rumors of prototypes)
Has to sit in a 2" x 2" square area on
my desk,
you might just about get the end of a power cable in that :-) 
1:01 p.m.
On Sun, 31 Oct 2004 17:56:07 -0800, you wrote:
On Oct 31, 2004, at 2:57 PM, Fred Cisin wrote:
Well, I've got a Telnet application for my Handspring Visor, which is
PalmOS 3 (I think, hard to keep caught up on that little stuff). I've
been at a Windows NT Command Prompt on it once or twice (dialed into a
machine at work at 33.6K.) Scary as hell, and very awkward using the
Palm 'Graffiti' handwriting to 'type' at a DOS prompt.
It would probably run on the Fossil wrist computer.
I should try hooking into the serial interface on the Visor to see if
it could substitute for a VT-220 to log into my Altos 586 running
Xenix.
*shudder*
On Sun, 31 Oct 2004, Jules Richardson wrote:
( .)v(. ) [my beady eyes crossing trying to read 80x24 off a watch]
:^)
On Sun, 2004-10-31 at 13:42 -0800, Ron Hudson
wrote:
Epson RC-20 wrist watch computer with imitation Z80
Matsucom/Ruputer wrist computer (some similarities to Palm Pilot)
Fossil wrist computer with Palm OS 4.1 (cancelled before release, but
there are rumors of prototypes)
Has to sit in a 2" x 2" square area on
my desk,
you might just about get the end of a power cable in that :-) 
7:07 p.m.
Hi,
Ron Hudso said:
( .)v(. ) [my beady eyes crossing trying to read
80x24 off a watch]
I get the same effect reading the screen of the Cybiko I use as a
portable terminal...even a 4x6 font won't get 80 columns on it's
2-inch screen though!
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1 Nov
1 Nov
7:25 a.m.
On Mon, Nov 01, 2004 at 09:07:47AM +0000, Stan Barr wrote:
Hi,
Ron Hudso said:
Hey... another Cybiko user. I picked up a couple a couple of years ago
for $0.01 on eBay (plus $12 S&H, so it balanced out). Unfortunately,
one of the batteries in one of the units was utterly hosed, and the batteries
cost more than I paid for the unit (wierd, rectangular F-6? sized NiMHs).
My purpose in getting two was to play with one as an RF base-station/internet
repeater, so what I guess I'll (eventually) do is to remove the F-6 batteries
( .)v(. ) [my beady eyes crossing trying to
read 80x24 off a watch]
I get the same effect reading the screen of the Cybiko I use as a
portable terminal...even a 4x6 font won't get 80 columns on it's
2-inch screen though! from one, remove the back cover, and use it with
standard AA-sized NiMHs as
a non-portable unit.
In the meantime, I've used my portable Cybiko as an eBook reader, and a few
other trivial tasks.
Fun little toy - especially fun is the Atmel microcontroller in there along
with the main processor.
-ethan
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6:54 p.m.
Hi,
Ethan Dicks said:
My purpose in getting two was to play with one as an
RF base-station/internet
repeater,
Something like that was sort of at the back of my mind too.
In the meantime, I've used my portable Cybiko as
an eBook reader, and a few
other trivial tasks.
I've got 3 of the things: two Classics, one with the MP3 player/SMC card
interface (a local store was selling them off cheap - like 5 pounds, say
$9 - and I'm a sucker for little gadgets!) and an Xtreme which I use as a
portable MP3 player with a 128Mb card. Back in the days when I had 256
*bytes* to play with I never dreamed I would one day be able to put 128Mb
in my pocket :-)
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31 Oct
31 Oct
11:54 a.m.
On Oct 31, 2004, at 2:20 PM, Jules Richardson wrote:
On Sun, 2004-10-31 at 13:42 -0800, Ron Hudson wrote:
Gah!! I meant 2 feet x 2 feet...
" inches 2 ticks, two syllables duh! I knowed that!
Has to sit in a 2" x 2" square area on
my desk,
you might just about get the end of a power cable in that :-)
12:12 p.m.
On Sun, Oct 31, 2004 at 05:54:26PM -0800, Ron Hudson wrote:
Gah!! I meant 2 feet x 2 feet...
" inches 2 ticks, two syllables duh! I knowed that!
"The great and mighty Stonehenge was nearly crushed by a dwarf!"
(or something close to that).
-ethan
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1 Nov
1 Nov
2:57 a.m.
On Mon, 2004-11-01 at 02:12 +0000, Ethan Dicks wrote:
On Sun, Oct 31, 2004 at 05:54:26PM -0800, Ron Hudson
wrote:
Ha ha - nice one! :-)
J.
Gah!! I meant 2 feet x 2 feet...
" inches 2 ticks, two syllables duh! I knowed that!
"The great and mighty Stonehenge was nearly crushed by a dwarf!"
(or something close to that).
-ethan
31 Oct
31 Oct
7 p.m.
Hi,
Ron Hudson said:
Ok, I am replacing the HP terminal with either a
Macintosh SE or an
Apple IIc+...
[snip]
Door #1 - Macintosh SE
- Have an appletalk laser printer for this machine
- perhaps smaller footprint.
I use a Mac SE as a terminal to a Linux box running simh...actually
it's connected to two Linux boxen. It makes a neat little terminal
which doesn't take up too much room.
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Cheers,
Stan Barr stanb(a)dial.pipex.com
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