{"id":182579,"date":"2015-08-05T19:12:00","date_gmt":"2015-08-06T00:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/08\/05\/way-too-much-free-time\/"},"modified":"2015-08-05T19:12:00","modified_gmt":"2015-08-06T00:12:00","slug":"way-too-much-free-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/08\/05\/way-too-much-free-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Way Too Much Free Time\u2026\u2026\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; float: right; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; text-align: center; width: 320px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/HwJRdKv.jpg\" rel=\"lytebox\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" bordercolor=\"white\" src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/HwJRdKv.jpg\" width=\"310\" \/><\/a><br \/><i>On Google using the Lynx text mode browser<\/i><\/div>\n<p>Some guy took his early 1980s vintage TRS-80 Model 100 and <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/information-technology\/2015\/08\/surfing-the-internet-from-my-trs-80-model-100\/\">set it up to surf the net<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">The true test of a man&#8217;s patience is crimping pins onto the end of a cable that leads to building a custom serial cable\u2014especially if it&#8217;s the first time you&#8217;ve even handled a serial cable in a decade. So as I searched under my desk, using my phone for a flashlight, I wondered whether I had finally found the IT project that would send me over the edge. On a recent day, I set out to turn my recently acquired vintage Radio Shack TRS-80 Model 100 computer into a working Internet terminal. And at this moment, I crawled on the floor looking for a DB-25 connector&#8217;s little gold pin that I had dropped for the sixth\u2014or maybe sixteenth\u2014time.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Thankfully, I underestimated my patience\/techno-masochism\/insanity. Only a week later, I successfully logged in to Ars&#8217; editorial IRC channel from the Model 100. And seeing as this machine first saw the market in 1983, it took a substantial amount of help: a Raspberry Pi, a little bit of BASIC code, and a hidden file from the website of a certain Eric S. Raymond.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I respect how the author has gotten his geek on.<\/p>\n<p>It means that he is doing his bit to prevent overpopulation, because with that under his arm, he is so never going to get his porcupine whacked.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Google using the Lynx text mode browser Some guy took his early 1980s vintage TRS-80 Model 100 and set it up to surf the net: The true test of a man&#8217;s patience is crimping pins onto the end of a cable that leads to building a custom serial cable\u2014especially if it&#8217;s the first time &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1060,1011,997],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer","category-history","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182579"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182579\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}