modern serial terminal

[David Griffith]

On Fri, 2 Nov 2007, Doc Shipley wrote:

>    oooh, neat!
>
>    So, I'm thinking that even I can still read 132 x 40 on a 10"
> diagonal screen.  If a 10" LCD was the "boxtop", that gives you a 6" x
> 8" form factor, inclusive of everything but the keyboard.  If you wanted
> to go seriously compact, use one of the fold-up Palm keyboards.  Me, I
> have fat fingers and would prefer a PS/2 or USB port.
>
>    Would it be practical to have some sort of removable storage - flash
> drive, CF, or whatever - act as the ROM?  That way one could use a VT320
> with a PDP-11 and a 3153 with an RS/6000, with no more trouble than
> swapping CF cards.

I don't see why not.  It would start to resemble a Commodore One that way.
Hmm... Ditch the dedicated CPU and make the FPGA into whatever CPU is
needed for the particular terminal.


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David Griffith
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