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A little while ago I registered for Nokia’s N810 device programme and yesterday I received an e-mail to confirm that my application had been accepted. Which means that I will soon be able to purchase an N810 at the heavily discounted price of €99.

I’ll more than likely leave the N800 running OS2007 and that way I’ll have devices running both that and the new OS2008. This will mean setting up a build environment for the new release, and I’ll have to decide whether I want to continue maintaining packages for OS2007 as well or just focus on OS2008. I’m hoping it won’t prove too arduous to maintain builds for both, and suspect this will be the case given that so far I’ve only done builds for curses applications. That said I really should soon take the plunge and have a go at building X11 apps.

And given that I already have two decent spec laptops with WiFi built in, and soon two internet tablets, it could be time to start playing with ad-hoc mesh networks via olsrd.

Fun times ahead!

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A build of the c3270 IBM 3270 (TN3270) terminal emulator is available for Maemo Bora. If you don’t have the Osmosoft repository you can add it by clicking here, and then find c3270 under user/Emulators in Application manager.

In the photo you can see c3270 running in one xterm tab whilst connected to Hercules running in another. Although there is no reason why you could not use this to connect from an internet tablet to your corporate IBM mainframe if you have one.

Disclaimer: This is provided as-is, without any warranty of any kind, and don’t blame me if this bricks your device or you realise after all these years of working with GUIs that text is better.

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So I finally got round to building a package for the Maemo (bora) build of Hercules, and setting up a Debian repository for it and future builds of other stuff for Maemo. You can add the repository by clicking here, and then find Hercules under user/Emulators in Application manager. Or if you prefer you can just download the package here. Since this is my first attempt at building a Debian package any feedback would be much appreciated.

Disclaimer: This is provided as-is, without any warranty of any kind, and don’t blame me if this bricks your device or you find yourself addicted to vintage IBM mainframe operating systems.

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Friday evening I came home to discover that the 2GB SD card I had ordered almost 2 weeks ago had finally arrived (postal strikes).
Last night I got round to copying on to it an ISO of the OpenVMS VAX v7.3 install CD, and managed to boot this on the Nokia N800 via SimH running in an xterm. And tonight I grabbed a few screen shots for posterity - could this be the smallest VAX ever? Whilst VMS booted it was only the cut down version on the install CD that is used to install a fully featured VMS system to a target disk drive. It is none the less VMS but the journey doesn’t stop here.

Next up on this ‘NanoVAX’ adventure will be building a hard disk image with VMS tailored such that it writes to disk as infrequently as possible. And I have a few ideas of where to start thanks to suggestions from folks on the Classic Computing mailing list, and the advice of a chap who sent me e-mail following my post on building SimH for Maemo.

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