[Noisebridge-discuss] Dumb Terminals Anyone?

[Ronald Cotoni]

Honestly you should do what i did.  I had a real dub terminal for my
sun/alpha hardware.  I switched to a p120 laptop with a built in
serial port and use hyper terminal.  I paid 20-30 bux for the laptop a
few years ago and it makes a great dumb terminal plus it has battery
power so it is portable.  If it breaks, it was 20 or 30 bux.  I had a
wireless card in it for a bit so I could connect to 802.11 b networks
and surf with it.  It could also play old school dos games.  Another
thing you could possibly do is put a usb to serial cable on a machine
inside the NB and use linux with minicom to share the access so
anyones laptop becomes an instant dumb terminal.

On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 4:15 AM, Andy Isaacson <adi at hexapodia.org> wrote:
> On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 12:31:07AM -0700, Jonathan Lassoff wrote:
>> I'm interested in setting up a dumb terminal for patching from computer
>> to computer.
>>
>> Does anyone have any recommendations for a multispeed, serially-attached
>> dumb terminal? I'm thinking of a self-contained unit with an
>
> I just threw away a real VT420 a few months ago.  (I think the HV coil
> was out though, so it wasn't much of a loss.)
>
> You could build one with an AVR:
> http://www.circuit-projects.com/microcontroller/linux-controlled-dumb-terminal-based-on-mcu.html
>
> -andy
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