[SunRescue] Alternative Hobbies

[Kris Kirby]

> > >> Speaking of alternative hobbies, I've really been wanting to make a
> > >> fisbowl out of a Mac Classic.

> > >PLEASE don't use a working one.....

> > Ditto.  if you've got a working one I could probably come up with a non
> > working one or a gutted one in exchange, And I'd even buy you a couple
> > goldfish :-)
> 
> Goodwill Computerworks here in Austin has (literally) PILES of old Mac
> chassis that they sell for this purpose, for $5 each.  They're almost
> begging people to come take them away.

I wonder if anyone has tried this with a trashed PS/2 Model 25. They are
larger than Macs, if you think you want to sacrifice the monitor (they
use analog video, essentially a crappy hack of VGA). I've actually got
two (with requisite [DOS] software and hardware) tricked out to work as
network terminals (read: a vt100 with a ethernet port.) I dare say they
have better serial performance than ethernet. :-) The network connection
drops packets on a regular basis, so the sessions are bursty.
-- 
Kris Kirby, KE4AHR
<kris at nospam.hiwaay.net>
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