Using an Atari ST as Unix/Linux Terminal

For using your atari ST as a Unix/Linux terminal you will need:

An USB serial adapter looks like this:

You can just throw the CD driver away, as Linux has built-in support for these devices. On a Debian 6 (Squeeze system), which uses the sysvinit startup system, you have to edit the file /etc/inittab

Inside this file you should add a line like

This means: start a login process on the serial line ttyUSB0, of speed 19200 bits/s, where a “ansi” text terminal will connect. If the screen displays garbage characters instead of a login prompt, just unplug and replug the usb serial adapter, and wait 5 seconds for getty to relaunch a terminal line.

Source: www.atari-wiki.com