Modern replica/implementation of a dumb terminal?

From: Tothwolf <tothwolf_at_concentric.net>
Date: Wed Nov 27 17:24:01 2002

On Wed, 27 Nov 2002, Sellam Ismail wrote:
> On Tue, 26 Nov 2002, Ethan Dicks wrote:
>
> > So has anyone else wrestled with how to cobble up a portable VT-100?
> > Anyone get any further?
>
> Nope. I just use my Psion Seris 5. It does everything you describe
> (portable instant on VT-100 terminal) and more ;)

Lucky ;P

I came across a portable VT once in a resale shop, but the guy wanted $$$
for it, so I dunno what became of it. It looked like a 8-9" black cube,
and the keyboard folded down to expose the screen. The keyboard wasn't
full size, but for temporary applications, I don't think that would matter
much.

Say, why don't the folks who want to turn laptop into a terminal look into
a bootable PCMCIA memory card. Even 4MB or so would be enough to load a
Linux kernel (or *BSD ;P) with libc and minicom, or even DOS 5 with
Procomm Plus 2.0. Most of the 486 laptops I've used had a bios setting
that allowed booting such PCMCIA memory devices...

-Toth
Received on Wed Nov 27 2002 - 17:24:01 GMT

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