I'm a fan of the RPi 3, since it has the wifi/Bluetooth built in On Wednesday, December 28, 2016, Douglas Crawford via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
On 12/28/2016 1:14 PM, william degnan via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
I follow in your footsteps. My plan was get the computer working first, so I know for sure what holes I need to make in the box, before I get started on it. I used Debian Jessie, which is the latest version of Debian and then installed the special simH Oscar made on top of that. It boots into simH but you can also get into the GUI mode, has WiFi networking.
On Wed, Dec 28, 2016 at 12:59 PM, Douglas Crawford via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
I did the same software setup. Though there was a turnkey light debian version that boasted a fast boot talked about in the instructions, I wanted the whole Jessie distribution so that things weren't missing that I have come to expect... to avoid those "you can't get there from here" scenarios.
Don't neglect the PiDP8 forum, some good experience information is posted there. Noteworthy is a mod to make the lights more realistic which I want to try soon.
-- Normal Person: Hey, it seems that you know a lot. Geek: To be honest, it's due to all the surfing I do. Normal Person: So you go surfing? Normal Person: But I don't think that has anything to do with knowing a lot... Geek: I think that's wrong on a fundamental level. Normal Person: Huh? Huh? What?