simh qustions

[Zane H. Healy]

>Are you saying my MAC (which can have a serial port via USB) can run 
>a terminal?
>I have an HP terminal right here!
>
>I am running simh on an G3 iBook (the one just before the 17" and 
>12" ones came out).

John Dundas recently posted the incantations needed to get Mac OS X 
to work with a Serial terminal attached via a serial-to-usb 
connector...

John wrote:
>You bet...
>
>a) Keyspan "High Speed USB Serial Adapter USA-19HS
><http://www.keyspan.com/products/usb/USA19HS/>
>
>b) Add a line similar to the following to /etc/ttys:
>tty.USA19H181P1.1 "/usr/libexec/getty std.9600" vt100 on secure
>
>c) 10.2.8 [PowerBook G4] and 10.2.8(G5) [Yes, I hooked it up to my 
>dual 2GHz G5.]
>
>John

I've not tried this myself, but it does seem tempting.

		Zane


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