On 1/24/2017 12:52 PM, william degnan via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
To demonstrate Kermit from the Superbrain, I'll need a Kermit host to talk to. So... Is anyone exhibiting a machine that would be considered an early example of a Kermit host? Would you consider trying to run Kermit hosting software and permit me to hook up over RS-232? Failing that I expect to use an IBM P70 386 portable running Procomm. (Hidden under the table of course, the modern commodity scourge of a computer that it is)
Comments welcome on the approach and content for this exhibit. (I know they'll come anyway... :) )
Very easy to set up a Debian Linux on an Raspberry Pi or Next Thing CHIP, etc. At the end of my recent thread about setting up simH on a CHIP, I documented what I had to do to attach a serial terminal (or Superbrain running Kermit). Basically you get to the login prompt of the Pi, or set to autoload to Kermit, etc.
http://vintagecomputer.net/browse_thread_record.cfm?id=664&tid=3
Bill Thanks Bill, thats a great consideration. Maybe I'll do it on the PiDP... it but have the linux handling the transfers (I'm not sure I could get the PDP emulation to actually run a PDP kemit host, if there is one...