Open source, stand alone, ASCII terminal project

[Doc Shipley]

Mr Ian Primus wrote:

> I'm definitely going to check out this project, and if I have time, build one myself. I'm a wire-wrap and soldering iron kind of guy, a premade PCB would take half the fun out of it :)  I really appreciate that this is designed around components that are within the realm of a solder-slinger like myself. I'm good with through-hole, I have an EPROM programmer. Never worked with CPLD's, and I don't know VHDL. Z80 assembler, on the other hand...

   I'm stoked about it.  I do a lot of service work on headless systems, 
and not having to haul a[n old] laptop around for a serial terminal will 
be a huge boon.  There's a keyboard just about anywhere, and I envision 
  a "production" model with, say, a 5" LCD in the case, running on 
batteries.  Literally a shirt-pocket terminal.


	Doc

P.S. - well, then there's still the cubic yard of cables, 
gender-changers, and pin/socket adapters I'll still need for 
compatibility.  :\