Access a G3 via an Apple II terminal

[Dog Cow]

Some you might remember the desktop G3 I got awhile ago. Here's the setup:

1.) Desktop G3 with OS 10.2 and the usual printer/modem serial ports

2.) An Apple IIgs with the same serial ports

3.) An Apple StyleWriter cable (or something similar)

What I want to do is use the IIgs as a dumb terminal to access the G3. I think on the G3 side this is done using getty and setting some configuration files, but I'm not sure where to start. Does anyone know?

 

[porter]

It's marvellous what this new fangled google thing will do...

http://macosx.com/forums/mac-os-x-system-mac-software/2758-using-getty-serial-port-consoles.html

 

[Bunsen]

Apple //c as a Dumb Terminal to my Mac mini

 

[Dog Cow]

Apple //c as a Dumb Terminal to my Mac mini

I read that this morning, but had doubts about it, because the guy used a Mac mini without serial ports, whereas I have a Mac with them.

I'll see how it all works later tonight.

 

[Dog Cow]

Status report:

Made some changes to the G3's config file in regards to the modem port. In the GS, I used the monitor to do a 2 (Control-K) Return. Also tried PR#2. Both seem to get the GS listening in on the modem port OK.

On the G3, I used terminal to echo some strings to the modem port like this:

echo "hello" > /dev/tty.modem

It made mostly just gibberish appear on the screen of the GS, like xx|~~ and so on. So the link is working, just not all the way. The biggest breakthrough was when I typed "does anyone understand?" on the G3 terminal, and on the GS, I got the following: "does a" It was clipped-off, but still is highly unlikely that that was random characters coming on-screen. I think just some of my message made it, and the rest disappeared somewhere.

So, maybe my cabling is not so good. I researched my Super Serial Card manual this morning (didn't have a lot of time, so it was quick) and I read that having mis-matched baud will create gibberish. But I was pretty sure to set the GS to 9600, and G3 too. I shall verify that to be doubly sure.

The cable I am using is an Apple StyleWriter cable. Does anyone know if that will suffice as null-modem? I haven't actually used any terminal software on the GS yet, just the methods I described.

david_schmidt on AppleFritter says:

A "printer" cable is in fact wired like a null modem, so that's the one you'd need once you get the MacADT server running. Plug it into the modem port of both machines and you should be ready to go.