RE: [PLUG] Linux on a Apple Powerbook 150?

["kaze" <kaze@voicenet.com>]

I like your idea of keeping the PB150 as a 'living room machine', as is, and
opening up a terminal window on another box; that's what I was trying to
work out how to do. Thanks for all the info - extremely informative.

==> >> Nope. There should also be an external printer/modem port. Just get
==> >> a DIN-9 to DB-9 serial cable, hook that up to another machine, and
==> >> use your favorite terminal emulation software.

==> >> That's also an option. A machine like this would function well
==> >> enough as a living room machine, just to type things in fast, ssh
==> >> from there to a machine playing mp3s through a stereo and play with
==> >> mpg123, so forth.

==> > So if I found a ssh client for MacOS 7.1 and hooked up the
==> serial line to
==> > another box I could do this too huh?

==> I don't understand why you'd use those two things together.


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