!rant I'm beginning my nerd project of getting my IBM 5150 to the internet via my raspberry pi and a terminal emulator. Oh and the IBM has a 4gb (yes gigabytes) HDD in the form of a compact flash.

The pi is a model B. Even as an older pi, look at the difference in size versus performance!

The 5150 is 4.77 mhz

The Pi is 900mhz

Awesome, and awesome project :)

Those boards below with the fans are 🐜miners bitmain bitcoin miners. I'm going to try to use the IBM via text based browser as an old school fallout 4'esque terminal to view their stats.

@dfox that sticker though. Week 1!

That sticker fits like a glove! Now I know where to put the spare one! Good idea!

you could even try to use an esp8266 microcontroller with 80mhz and programming it with arduino.
It has wifi and serial ports but because I don't know your project it could be unfitting

@davidmaerz ill look into that

I'll have rasp pi hooked directly into a switch off of my router and a display for it as well.

@lquessenberry you can ask me if you have questions about usage of esp8266s. although I'm not a Software engineer I'm fairly experienced with esp8266 arduino standalone usage.

@lquessenberry for Raspberrypi Pis consider using 16x2 lcd screens, they are cheap and relatively easy to program.
The esp8266 of course only suports wifi and I would use a wemos d1 mini devBoard of it with the Oled shield

@davidmaerz that seems like it might work more permanently! My 5150 has 2x2gb partitions set up as C: and D: drives so I have space for code on it as well. Would be cool to run some BASIC to control newer hardware like that if I can.

Here's my inspiration

http://pcadvisor.co.uk/opinion/...

@lquessenberry After reading some chunks of the text (don't have much time atm) your way to use a Raspberry Pi seems more practical. probably overkill considering it's capabilities but probably easier to achieve when you want to send things like Emails.
esp8266 mostly support pretty primitive http, or udp packet communication and the Pi can be live programmed and doesn't have to be reflashed all the time.