Updated as of June 23, 2016
My Symbolics goals:
- Get an entirely clean, hard-drive based Genera 8.3 install running on the XL1201
- Get the MacIvory III running 8.3 as well (which it already is)
- Set up a new Site with both these computers, networked using CHAOS
- Site name: Element
- Symbolics computers named after noble gasses
- File transfers/servers enabled
- Remote login enabled
- Time server/setting enabled
- Set up TCP/IP networking on both computers
- Set up an NFS server on my SCSI Linux host and get the Symbolics computers able to store and back up files to it
For maintenance, I need to:
- Recap the console
- Recap the XL1201 (Cap list)
- Fully tune the console so the picture is as good as it can be (and [document how this is done]
Things to learn:
- Figure out how to copy an LMFS from one FEP to another (it shows up as 0 bytes)
- Figure out the maximum drive size of a SCSI drive on the XL1201 that can host an FEP filesystem
- Figure out how to install Genera 8.3 from CD-ROM without anything else on it (if possible, may need a Genera bootstrap/disk format)
As for acquisitions, I would like to get these things:
- A Symbolics ADB adapter
- A new-style Symbolics keyboard
- An XL1200 with full set of graphics cards
- A color console for the XL1200
- Get a 1x SCSI CD-ROM drive like the AppleCD 150
- Get Mac OS 8 drivers for the 3-button Logitech ADB mouse
- Xerox 3-button optical mouse (and then make an adapter to Symbolics mouse)
Miscellaneous:
- Buy/make custom keycaps for Apple Design Keyboard for Genera
- Build a Symbolics keyboard to USB keyboard converter
- Build a USB mouse to Symbolics mouse converter (to use a modern optical 3-button mouse)
Content goals:
- Document all capacitors in the Console
- Finish documenting all capacitors in the XL1201
- Make a video of using the MacIvory and XL1201
Software engineering goals:
- (Have lots of ideas for things I want to write)
- Build a Z-machine interpreter and port some classic games (port this?)
- Build a roguelike
- Run a web server and site on the computer
- Build an SSH client and/or server
- "Here's another Symbolics project for you: A cl-ssl workalike for Genera that trampolines through a little server on another device, so your bolix doesn't waste its time doing crypto very very slowly." (suggested by eschatologist)
- Other projects from CLiki
Blog goals:
- Configure Twitter to look Symbolicsish
- Configure YouTube to look Symbolicsish
- Configure GitHub to look Symbolicsish
- Modify Ghost theme to show the console content wider
- Modify Ghost theme to include Symbolics pictures
- DONE - Made a Keyboard banner image
- DONE - Made Meta-Key Favicon for this and Koken