Old laptops as cheap terminals (was Re: Old Macs = cheap terminals)

From: allisonp <allisonp_at_world.std.com>
Date: Thu Jun 8 16:49:19 2000

>I bought an ancient Zenith XT laptop (dual 720K floppies) for $10 at a
local
>box shop explicity for a terminal. I have a DOS 3.3 boot disk in it with
>Kermit, and away I go. If I could lay my hands on a cheap Xircom PE3 (no
>flames, please), I'd use the laptop as an IP "terminal", too (for the


Don't you need a bidirectional port for the PE3? I have a few of them and
have never tried them on xtclass boxen for that reason.

What I'd like to find is a driver for that that works under win95, nt4,
linux or
Minix. the ones I have are dos, win3.x and maybe OS/2 V??.

Allison
Received on Thu Jun 08 2000 - 16:49:19 BST