31 Jul
2007
31 Jul
'07
8:09 p.m.
On Jul 31, 2007, at 1:51 PM, Ethan Dicks wrote:
That would be EXTREMELY cool.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL
Farewell Ophelia, 9/22/1991 - 7/25/2007
Hmm... that does sound interesting. A 320x200 LCD
panel isn't
expensive (I have several raw ones on hand w/touch sensors), and could
be driven to 80 cols w/a 3x5 font (as was once used to give the C-64
"80 columns"). A "really cheap" terminal could be an older Palm
Pilot
running one of the extant terminal emulators, sharing a new enclosure
with the PDP-8 board, attached internally via TTL serial.
Certainly doable. Jim Kearney's IOB6120 does a nice VT52
emulation; adding an LCD driver to that (given enough FPGA space)
would be a project, but it'd be doable.
Might make an
interesting coversation piece.
I think a 12-bit hand-held would be pretty cool.