[wuug-list] [wuug-forum] BJ: Re: Distro for OLD machine for serial port capture

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Author: BJ
Username:  (d57-118-55.home.cgocable.net)
Subject: Re: Distro for OLD machine for serial port capture
Forum: Operating Systems
Link: http://www.wuug.org/read.php?12,44,46#msg-46
Approved: Yes

Thanks Aaron, I will give NetBSD a look.

As far as my reasoning, I have 2 dozen PI/IIs gathering dust, and I like doing things as inexpensively as possible.  There is a thrill I get from utilizing old hardware... plus I can image the drive, and have replacement ready if required.

A PLC solution would require a network interface card, which are typically proprietary and expensive (relatively speaking).  Plus the communication protocols are typically proprietary, and I don't have time for low-level programming.

Tools like interceptty http://www.suspectclass.com/~sgifford/interceptty/interceptty.html make the job really easy to slurp into a database.

BJ.