On Wed, 10 Dec 2008, Greg Buchner wrote:
There's no reason why you couldn't take an original Mac from 1984 and do the same. It's all just a matter of software.
128K of RAM might be a limiting factor ;-)
While I don't know which version of the OS that ProTerm Mac requires, (7, 8 or 9...), you could do that from ProTerm to ProTerm with an older Mac.
I had that set up quite some time ago and I'm pretty sure the Mac was running System 7, which should run on everything from the Mac Plus up... ISTR it being fairly limited though. A better solution (for older Macs) is installing NetBSD... I'm no *nix expert, but I managed to get it running on an LCIII, using a IIgs as the terminal. It was a bit frustrating, but in a fun, challenging way (in hindsight).
] SIMON D WILLIAMS