IBM 5120 (was Re: My First S-100 System)

From: Ethan Dicks <erd_6502_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Mon Oct 14 13:42:00 2002

--- "Fred Cisin (XenoSoft)" <cisin_at_xenosoft.com> wrote:
> It all seems rather elaborate for a dumb terminal!
>
> Y'all seem to be moving from building a terminal, into building a network
> server!

Or at least a network client.
 
> Why not XTs with serial ports?

Why not indeed... and how about a parallel-port pocket LAN adapter, too?

> If you are THAT hung up on avoiding MS-DOS (I don't think that MICROS~1
> really got truly evil until about 3.00), why not just write a trivial
> terminal emulation program and put it in the bootstrap?

What _I_ did was to take a $15 Zenith XT laptop with dual 720 floppies,
load on DOS 3.3 (an *original copy*, thank you) with MS-Kermit and the
packet driver for a Xircom PE-3-10BT. There's no hard drive noise,
I can move it around from place to place, and it goes to sleep when I'm
not using it. MS-Kermit's TCP/IP interface is pretty slick - I also
use it to telnet into my Sun server and Lynx around.

What I'd like to do is to fit the PE3 in the side bay where the large
internal modem goes - just have an RJ-45 out the side. For now, though,
it's fine, hung off the back end.

-ethan



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