Serial option for PCs

From: John Foust <jfoust_at_threedee.com>
Date: Fri Jun 18 08:24:27 1999

An article on Slashdot
<http://slashdot.org/askslashdot/99/06/17/1731248.shtml>
asked about methods for making headless Linux boxes, and one of the
reader answers was sufficiently retro and weird that I thought it
might interest this list.

<http://www.realweasel.com/> describes the PC Weasel 2000, an ISA card
that emulates a mono video card, but that transmits the characters on
the virtual screen out the serial port, and converts serial input to
PC keyboard keystrokes. Thus no video monitor is needed, and no BIOS
changes needed, in order to "see" even the lowest-level cold-boot
options on a PC.

- John
Received on Fri Jun 18 1999 - 08:24:27 BST

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