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Commodore PET Web Server

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Not quite the cool hack it might seem from the title. The TCP/IP stack is running on external hardware, exposing connections as file streams over the PET IEC interface.

There are some really small TCP/IP stacks.

https://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/ietf/current/msg10705....

http://tuxgraphics.org/electronics/200905/embedded-tcp-ip-st...

POKE 59458,62

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killer_poke

I'm surprised there are no mention of techniques to create enough heat to cause a fire. I suppose that's a bit more than a killer poke. Got any links for a 'flaming' poke?

I'm pretty sure this would cause the PET's monitor to catch fire.

My friends and I (as kids) would dare each other to type this into any SuperPet we saw in a computer shop but thankfully we were all too sensible to give it a go.

Mostly we'd say we were going to and instead type

  POKE 32768, 115

which (if I remember correctly) would put a love heart in the top left corner instead.

More details:

http://www.6502.org/users/andre/petindex/poke/

This just brought me back to HS and doing this on all the computer lab C64's (usually contained 3/4 of the way into some Basic program...) After a few weeks of this, there was a nice note posted to each monitor to kindly refrain from killing the machines...

thanks boomlinde, because I wa really wondering how the tcp/ip stack could be implemented on a pet !!

one way that springs to mind is 6502 machine code talking to a GPIB to ethernet adapter like this one.

https://www.sparkfun.com/products/8841 maybe

Heh A lot of the modern commodore peripherals have more computing power than the computers they are plugged into. But then again they aren't usually as fun as the Commodore. :-D

Another good one was the Tandy Model 100 Webserver:

http://www.humanclock.com/webserver.php

source: http://static.humanclock.com/files/apachesrc.txt

First computer I ever wrote a program for...

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