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Using an Apple IIe as a serial term with Gentoo Linux

Posted by Sander_Marechal on · 4 comments
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Presumably, many have done this before and could not bothered to document it because it was considered trifling. Well, I have spent far more time on things far more pointless, and, so, it is in consideration of ye idle sleepless sinners, that I write to you this here, uh, procedure, for taking an Apple IIe and using it as a a serial terminal for your GNU/Linux box. These instructions were written for a Gentoo Linux machine but they should be easily adaptable to any distribution you run, so if you're part of the great gothic hordes of (x)buntu users (Dear hordes: just kidding about the gothic part), you could probably adapt these instructions to your hippie distribution without too many problems (yes, I said it.)

[A nice guide with humor added, but only suitable for those not easily offended. — Sander]

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Comments (4)

Aladdin_Sane ·
That was a fun article.

Ooo, fuzzy green screen.

Pristine Apple ][e with dual floppy drives!

I tried 'telnet latenightbbs.com 6001' on Debian Sid, it works fine.

"That's life at 9600 bps, baby. Or Baud if you're old sk00l. And wrong."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baud

"A typical 2400-bit/s modem actually transmits at 600 baud (600 symbol/s), where each quadrature amplitude modulation symbol carries four bits of information."

Pet peeve from the old days.
Sander_Marechal Story submitter ·
Quoting:I tried 'telnet latenightbbs.com 6001' on Debian Sid, it works fine.


Yeah, did that too. It brought back quite some memories seeing text not appear near-instantaneously :-)
tuxchick ·
Oh cool, I heart oldtimers from the days of Real Bauds!

I thought that 2400 was the upper limit of Real Bauds, and anything over that was just stuffing more bits per baud...?
Aladdin_Sane ·
>>I thought that 2400 was the upper limit of Real Bauds, and anything over that was just stuffing more bits per baud...?

Basically, yes. At least to my recollection with respect to MOdulators/DEModulators.

As I recall, a 2400 bps MODEM ran at 600 baud, and the 9600 and 14.4k bps MODEMs both ran at 2400 baud.

Quoting myself: "Yes, Marvin the Martian was involved in the development of the device: In fact I am sure that he was Hayes Microcomputer Products, Inc. Employee #1."

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