____ FRST Computer: Things TODO with your FRST _______________________

Here's a list of things to do (some w/ some TODO, too) with your FRST:

 # Note-taking

Ah, text editing... one of the earliest computer things...  And yeah,
9front ships with all the text editors you might need: acme, sam, ed.
(vim and emacs users can find their favs, too, I guess...)

The compact, portable nature of the Model 3 allows for convenient
note-taking on the go.  (Works great on a commercial airliner!)
The 36-key keyboard layout is efficient and easy to learn.

 # Document authoring

True to its Unix roots, 9front's text processing / formatting tools
provide all you need to author and publish documents of all kinds,
(with a bias towards academic papers, perhaps) including support
for charts and figures.  PDF and Postscript support allow documents
to be prepared for distribution or printing.

(screenshot of acme + page)

 # Gophering

Use 'gopher' to navigate gopherspace.  The handling of resource
types by external tools like 'page' or 'telnet' within 'rio' make
this a very pleasant gopher experience, already.  Perhaps more could
be TODO'd here, but navigating the "subsurface" web is one of the
Model 3's best tricks, so far.

 # BBSing

Use 'vt' and 'telnet' to connect to the still-active (and growing!)
world of telnettable BBSes.

(screenshot of vt connected to ANSI BBS)

Of course, vt's ANSI support and/or font issues may or may not yield
the best results on all boards, so YMMV.  I'm not sure we need
anything as comprehensive as Syncterm, but there's definitely some
TODO here for users wanting a smoother BBS experience...

 # SSHing

'vt' is also great for 'ssh'ing into remote systems.  (including SSH
BBSes ;))  Use your FRST to administer remote systems or participate
in your chosen corner of the tildeverse.

 # Games

 ## Mahjongg

 ## Doom

 ## Emulation: NES, GB ... ?

 # Computer Science (The ultimate TODO!)

Do some computer science with your FRST!  Learn Bell Labs' newest C
and write some software for your FRST.  Plan 9 was designed to be
simple to extend.  APIs are (mostly) well documented and the system
comes with its own source, offering plenty of examples for the curious
and enterprising user.  The 9front distribution is actively maintained
and continues to extend and improve upon (hopefully? ;)) the original
vision.

Find yourself missing something?  Scratch that itch and publish a
repo!