Brasstacks

I've cycled back to being interested in the Incompatible Timesharing System (ITS). In the interim, I replaced my G4 iBook with a Intel-based MacBookPro. With a bit of hacking, I was actually able to get local networking to communicate with the simulated PDP-10, and thought I would record some of the details. I needed to Install tuntaposx . I used the macports version. Crudely hack the ks-base-its build in klh10-2.0h from panda-dist (and additional patches) to define KLH10_NET_TUN=1 under Mac OS X. I need to clean up my own sources and put them up on github. Also, I needed to hack around the removal of "mtio.h" from Mac OS X 10.6, borrowing the minimum definitions from FreeBSD headers. I guess Apple decided they really didn't want tape drives connected to their machines. Maybe it is still in OS X server? There are a few rough edges in tun/tap support. Following a hint I found online, I open a bash shell as root, and execute exec 4<> /dev/tap0 # create t...

I wanted to post a link referring to recent progress on adapting Symbolics keyboards to modern PCs. Hans Hübner announced that the kbdbabel project (apparently based on 8051 microcontrollers) was able to be adapted to support the slim-line (Rev. C) Symbolics keyboard, adapting it to PS/2 protocol . My own work in this area ground to a halt pretty soon after I received the ADB adapter from DKS. I'm happy to see that others have been able to make progress! UPDATE: Rainer Joswig has commented on his experience using the kbdbabel adapter to connect a Symbolics keyboard to a Macbook running Mac OS X . UPDATE 2: Hans has developed a USB adapter solution .

Using my MacIvory, until now, I have been using an old Mac Powerbook running Mac OS 9 with AppleTalk file-sharing to allow me to copy files from a USB key to the Mac IIfx host running 7.6.1. Trying to access shared folders on my newer laptop running Mac OS X failed, as did sharing in the opposite direction. Presumably, the problem is that Mac OS X uses a revision of the AFP file-sharing protocol which is incompatible with the version used by the default Mac OS 7.6.1. It turns out there is a fix for this issue: Install Open Transport 1.1.2 (a dependency for the next step) on the 7.6.1 Mac Install AppleShare Client 3.8.3 on the 7.6.1 Mac The Apple article on AppleShare Client 3.8.3 has more information on this release of the software. Apparently AppleShare 3.8.8 requires System 8.