He's just this guy, y'know?
One mantra of the sysadmin arts imparted by my sensei many, many moons ago: "Anything with moving parts is evil." RS-232 is _full_ of moving parts.
What is the sound of one handshaking? USB-to-serial converters that... don't.
The states of "enlightenment" and "dejected resignation" are one.
#PERQ sufferers, from novitiate to master, take heed; this is as far as I go with shameless self-promotion:
I am an unabashed pixel slut. Annual cleaning jag complete: dust bun^Wrhinos rounded up, keyboards de-grossified, cable tangling gremlins thwarted again (for now). The next challenge is to get four *actual* #PERQ screens lit up to go with these four emulated ones. (And you thought AI datacenters were driving up your electric rates. Ha!)
Okay, here's the screenshot of the #PERQ emulator holding up today's newspaper. For fans of #CommonLisp or #retrocomputing in general, I've slapped together an archive here: https://github.com/skeezicsb/PERQmedia/tree/master/Accent_S6/Lisp_M3 with a pre-configured hard disk image and config files. The T2 image works with the current release (v0.7.5) but to run the T4/4MB configuration requires a build from source or an updated release (v0.7.8) coming Real Soon Now. [Edited: oh yeah, Hemlock runs too.] Share and enjoy!
#PERQ Emulator progress: 24-bit/4MB "T4" configuration now booting Accent S7. Oooooooooooh can a Spice Lisp with enough space to do some stuff be far behind? :-)
@stepleton@oldbytes.space #PERQ
"Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more;
Or close the wall up with our English dead.
In peace there’s nothing so becomes a man
As modest stillness and humility:
But when the blast of war blows misaligned fetches in our ears,
Then imitate the action of the MST PROM;
Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood,
Disguise fair nature with hard-favour’d rage;
Then lend the eye a terrible aspect;
Let pry through the portage of the trace file
Like the brass cannon; let the brow o’erwhelm it
As fearfully as doth a galled address register
O’erhang and jutty his confounded LSBs,
Swill’d with the wild undefined behaviors
of an odd address'd Fetch2."