[Noisebridge-discuss] Dumb Terminals Anyone?

[Michael Shiloh]

This is also a greener solution with a smaller carbon footprint

On 05/16/2010 12:01 PM, Ronald Cotoni wrote:
> 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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