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One thing I always think about when I read about DOS-era small laptops is how complicated would it be to stuff a raspberry-pi-like board inside it, connect both
by marcodiego 5y ago
One thing I always think about when I read about DOS-era small laptops is how complicated would it be to stuff a raspberry-pi-like board inside it, connect both boards using the serial port and use the bigger machine as a terminal for the smaller one.
I wonder if anybody has done it.
- bombcar 5y agoI remember an old thinkpad I think it was that had swappable bays for battery, cdrom, floppy. I bet with some work you could make one bay take a smaller pi.
- londons_explore 5y agoIt isn't trivial to do networking or serial Comms over an IDE or Sata connector... You'd need pretty custom hacked up software on both ends of the link.
- bombcar 5y agoI can’t recall if a modem attachment was an option but I’m pretty sure pcmcia was - maybe that has serial somewhere inside it. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ThinkPad_UltraBay https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ThinkPad_UltraBay - I bet one of those could work somehow.
- netsharc 5y agoBut then the laptop would need to boot minimal OS that can load a telnet client that automatically connects through the serial port to the Pi, and GUIs might be hard, but I guess an X server (display, running on the laptop) could be configured to be listening for connections on the laptop - but the laptop need to be a bit more powerful.
- marcodiego 5y ago> But then the laptop would need to boot minimal OS Yes. Like FreeDOS.
- selfhoster11 5y agoDOS can handle being a serial terminal just fine. It's also capable of being an X11 client (see DESQview/X), though I don't know how well that works with modern versions of Xorg or modern X11 applications.
- dicknuckle 5y agohighly likely on Reddit /r/cyberdeck