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Teensy quad-core server. || taken January 17, 2017 with Canon EOS 5D Mark II and EF50mm f/1.4 USM at 50, ¹⁄₈₀ sec at f/4.0 with 0 EV, ISO 4000 || Copyright 2009 Stephen T. Shankland
As seen at the Lipizzaner show at the Intel Core i7 Launch in Johannesburg, South Africa.
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Jim Wiggins was configuring a new abmx a/c machine to have a serial port console capability, and he needed to test it. But something has happened to his Macbook laptop so that it does not like Keyspan devices any more, and also won't pass one thru to the Windows 7 VMware that he has. He was rooting around the lab for some kind of device to use instead, and he spotted an Intel Classmate PC clamshell laptop.
He got it online, downloaded the 19HS keyspan driver (very slowly!) and it installed OK. Then he downloaded PuTTYtel - the non-encrypting version of PuTTY - and attached it to COM3 at 19200 baud. Sure enough, he got a command prompt, and when he rebooted the server he saw the whole boot process on the clamshell (as well as on an attached VGA monitor).
Actually, the GRUB menu only shows up on the serial console for some reason, but it doesn't show up on the VGA display these days, does it? But all the rest, including the login prompt, is on both. Anyway, it was a fun hack for Jim, with a little clamshell becoming a fine debugging tool. Yet another use for a clamshell, in a pinch.