[Coco] CoCo came in handy as a terminal

[Vincent Tran]

 I would love to use my coco as a terminal.  What communication program did
you use to reach your linux box? Did you telnet or ssh in?

On Tue, May 5, 2015 at 6:11 PM, Joe Grubbs <jsgrubbs at hotmail.com> wrote:

> So... My primary server machine at home recently received a Linux upgrade.
> For file system duty, I decided to give the btrfs a try instead of ext4.
>
> I had a power blip and was therefore unable to do a proper shutdown. Sadly
> I encountered a bug in the Linux kernel 3.19 wherein booting fails when
> remounting an unclean volume. For some reason even the emergency console
> wouldn't function properly. It would get far enough to display the login
> prompt, but then the display went blank (and the monitor went into
> standby). Later I found out the ATI display driver was crashing as well,
> but anyway...
>
> Without a console, I thought I was out of luck. But then I tried
> connecting via ssh from another machine. No dice... networking and the dhcp
> client hadn't started.
>
> Since I'm old fashioned, I always have a getty instance listening on my
> serial port, and at the time I had a CoCo2 connected. I wasn't expecting it
> to work, but I tried loading a communications program on the CoCo, and to
> my surprise I was greeted with a login prompt!
>
> I logged in, started networking and the dhcp client, and proceeded to
> download kernal 4.0. I had to use wget and those obscenely long and
> complicated URLs to access the kernal images from the repo... typing that
> out on a 32 character wide display with mostly "lowercase" green on black
> characters was an exercise in patience (and eyestrain), but I got it. I
> installed them and rebooted. Voila! It all works now!
>
> Sure I could have probably connected a more modern computer like my
> laptop, or even my Wyse 50, but by the time I realized that, I was already
> committed to using the CoCo.
>
>
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