PiDP-10 1055 is coming to VCF Midwest! How should I let festgoers bring their own terminals?

[Mx Argent]

Hello, all! My 10's been up and running nicely for a month now, so I've decided to go ahead and integrate it into my plans for my VCF Midwest table in September. It'll be running a dual monitor setup (one for use as a terminal in conjunction with the Knight TV sim, one acting as my Type 340 on a tripod stand), but I ideally want people to be able to connect to it with their own terminals wirelessly so I can actually get multiple users working at once. Telnet'd be the easy part, but ideally I want people to be able to use X11 forwarding for their own instances of the Knight TV sim if they bring their own devices. Anyone have any experience with that sort of setup?

At this stage, I was wondering if a locked down VCF Guest account on the Pi OS install would be able to access things running as usual under Pi.

[Lars Brinkhoff]

ideally I want people to be able to use X11 forwarding for their own instances of the Knight TV sim if they bring their own devices.

Note that the tvcon program is designed to access the tv11 emulator across a network. 

[Mx Argent]

Yeah! I've been primarily interacting with my machine at home using X11 forwarding on the emulators. Big thing is I want people to be able to SSH into the host machine and use it that way (in addition to my "built in" terminal), so I'm thinking making a locked down guest account on the Pi OS install and providing a login/password at the table might be the way to go here.

[Lars Brinkhoff]

Mx Agent wrote:

I've been primarily interacting with my machine at home using X11 forwarding on the emulators. Big thing is I want people to be able to SSH into the host machine and use it that way

Another fun solution would be to make a tvcon version that draws using sixel graphics.  That would work transparently across SSH or TELNET, as long as the end user has a sixel capable terminal (emulator).

[Lawrence Fisher]

That would be the ultimate CRTSTY/cups solution!