Jan 07, 2020 20:00:00

A fierce person who achieved access to Google from a PC-9801 compatible machine 30 years ago appeared

Starting with the

PC-9801 released by NEC in 1982, the ' PC-9800 Series ' is a 16-bit / 32-bit PC architecture that swept the PC market in Japan in the 1980s and 1990s. Answer summary has released a movie showing how to display Google with such a powerful technique on such a PC-9801 compatible machine.

Alright! ! I was able to connect to Google from a PC (pc9801) 30 years ago! ! It was a personal computer communication software at that time (software before the Internet spread), and was connected via serial login to the latest Linux. I was able to code with the latest vim using a CRT and a 5 inch floppy. Reiwa and Showa are connected over time pic.twitter.com/0q38ILENSg

— Answer (@kaitou_ryaku) January 5, 2020

The ' PC-386VR ' released by Epson in 1990 is a PC-9801 compatible machine with a CPU of Intel i386SX, 1.6MB + 13MB of RAM, 256KB of video RAM, and 12KB of text RAM. Insert a 5-inch floppy disk containing KTX ...

Turn on your device. The reading sound of a 5 inch floppy called Gakkon Gakkon sounds in the room.

The OS displayed on the CRT display is Microsoft MS-DOS version 3.30

Several PC communication forums, such as

Nikkei MIX , NIFTY-Serve , and PC-VAN , were displayed, but they were all closed at the time of article creation.

PC-386VR is a dumb terminal and seems to be connected by serial communication to a host PC with Ubuntu version 18.0.4 installed.

Enter the Google URL into your device ...

Google was displayed. However, there is no image, only text is displayed on the screen.

When you enter the search word 'yahoo' ...

The search results are displayed.

But Yahoo! When trying to access JAPAN, it seems that it could not be displayed because it was not supported.

Also, using the text editor

Vim ...

It was also possible to code a program to display 'hello world' in C language.

According to Mr. Answer's tweet, although we tried a method of connecting directly with the TCP / IP protocol, it could not be realized in the end, so we gave up and executed it with a serial terminal connection method.

Reply to the comments

Q. Is it a PC9801 compatible machine instead of a pc9801?
A. Yes

Q. Not in Showa, but in Heisei?
A. Yes

Q. Is it 386 and FreeBSD or Linux works?
A. It doesn't work because it is 386SX

Q. Dam terminal. Straightforward TCP / IP
A. It was a challenge and the New Year was destroyed. I gave up and did UART. This is a sadness video

— Answer (@kaitou_ryaku) January 5, 2020