Date
7pm, Wednesday, 8 May 2024
Topic 1/2: PiSCSI: Emulating a SCSI Hard Drive with a Raspberry Pi
Speaker: Adrian Hayes
Reliable and operational SCSI hard drives for vintage Macintosh computers are getting rarer and harder to find these days. Emulating SCSI hard drives can give your vintage Mac a new lease on life, with a number of modern upgrades available, one being the PiSCSI adapter.
Topic 2/2: GNU command-line tools
Speaker: Tom Ryder
The GNU core utilities is a suite of command-line tools that do basic file, shell, and text manipulation. A few of them, like ls(1) or cp(1), are among the first and most common commands a GNU/Linux user would use. But how about basename(1), to strip a filename’s path or extension? Or fmt(1), to format text to a given width? Or factor(1), to print the prime factors of a number? Tom will go through some of the lesser-known coreutils programs, and show a bit about what they do, along with a few other tools in the same vein that are usually packaged separately, including bc(1) and units(1).
Venue
Cost
$2 gold coin donation
Coffee and biscuits will be provided, but please feel free to bring along your own snacks and drinks.
Agenda
- 7:00pm: Welcome (Tom Ryder)
- 7:10pm: Topic 1/2: PiSCSI: Emulating a SCSI Hard Drive with a Raspberry Pi (Adrian Hayes)
- 7:55pm: Tea and coffee break
- 8:05pm: General business (Nick Skarott)
8:10pm: Topic 2/2: GNU command-line tools (Tom Ryder)- 9:00pm: Doors close