9 Sep
2018
9 Sep
'18
1:25 a.m.
Data General made a nifty and flexible terminal called "Walkabout". It
had 32kb of internal memory one could use to take notes on the move. It
ran on a 12volt wall wart which charged an onboard nicad battery.
The lcd screen is not backlit but it was useable in most any light.
The sliders on the face note-book-like machine controlled contrast and
darkness. I used one as the head unit for my Data General MV4000/DC.
The battery is likely dead on any you'll find, but it is easily
accessible by a sliding cover on the side which when removed reveals a
pack you can unplug and replace without tools.
It supported a fair list of emulations selectable on-screen including
vt220 and vt100 plus various proprietary 'Dasher' emulations. The
keyboard is better than most modern-day notebooks, it is VERY light-
weight and pretty sturdy. Here's a link to a photo.
http://www.digibarn.com/collections/systems/dg-walkabout/DSC06218.JPG
Jeffrey S. Worley
9 Sep
9 Sep
7:23 a.m.
we (at http://www.downthebunker.xyz) are developing a project that is
a portable vt100 in laptop shape.
done with modern components, essentially it's an FPGA + LVDS circuit
to drive the LCD
the chassis will be manufactured by laser-cutting plastic planes, then
assembled with glue.
it's not yet a public project since it's a personal team internal
work, but maybe ...
anyway, the firmware is barebone, with a simple OS that runs directly the VT100
Il giorno dom 9 set 2018 alle ore 08:25 Jeffrey S. Worley via cctalk
<cctalk at classiccmp.org> ha scritto:
Data General made a nifty and flexible terminal called "Walkabout". It
had 32kb of internal memory one could use to take notes on the move. It
ran on a 12volt wall wart which charged an onboard nicad battery.
The lcd screen is not backlit but it was useable in most any light.
The sliders on the face note-book-like machine controlled contrast and
darkness. I used one as the head unit for my Data General MV4000/DC.
The battery is likely dead on any you'll find, but it is easily
accessible by a sliding cover on the side which when removed reveals a
pack you can unplug and replace without tools.
It supported a fair list of emulations selectable on-screen including
vt220 and vt100 plus various proprietary 'Dasher' emulations. The
keyboard is better than most modern-day notebooks, it is VERY light-
weight and pretty sturdy. Here's a link to a photo.
http://www.digibarn.com/collections/systems/dg-walkabout/DSC06218.JPG
Jeffrey S. Worley
3:27 p.m.
TI Silent 700 was the standard for decades.
And, it was one of the uses that popularized the Radio Shack Model 100
(also the other kyocera variants, and the Epson HC20/HX20)
TDDs (Telecommunication Device fpor the Deaf) included many portable ones,
mostly using "Baudot"/"Murray"/CCITT-2
The Atari Portfolio, Poqet, and HP95/100 models briefly became the
standard pocket terminals.
But there have been many more over the years, such as the Epson RC20
wristwatch (with sorta-Z80, RAM, ROM, serial port),
Palm (and Fossil Palm wristwatch), Ipaq, etc.
How hard is it to add a serial port to a "smartphone"?
3:40 p.m.
Portable?
I've got a Micon terminal here that probably was about the smallest
practical terminal made in the 1970s. LED display (15 segment, I think),
31 key keyboard (numbers and punctuation are entered with the shift key.
Basically, 26 alphabetic keys, space, shift, shift lock, control and
clear keys. Uppercase only. Line cord and DB-25F connector.
Basically, an ASCII version of the Micon TDD terminals.
Built mostly of 4000-series SSI CMOS and some random discretes.
Anyone want to make an offer? It had been working at one time, but the
CMOS ICs seem to be going one by one to the great sandpile.
--Chuck
3:46 p.m.
On 9/9/2018 2:27 PM, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote:
TI Silent 700 was the standard for decades.
And, it was one of the uses that popularized the Radio Shack Model 100
(also the other kyocera variants, and the Epson HC20/HX20)
TDDs (Telecommunication Device fpor the Deaf) included many portable
ones, mostly using "Baudot"/"Murray"/CCITT-2
The Atari Portfolio, Poqet, and HP95/100 models briefly became the
standard pocket terminals.
But there have been many more over the years, such as the Epson RC20
wristwatch (with sorta-Z80, RAM, ROM, serial port),
Palm (and Fossil Palm wristwatch), Ipaq, etc.
How hard is it to add a serial port to a "smartphone"?
I am waiting for the telephone option. :)
Are there any good windows vt100 terminals. I want someting that
comes up as real VT100 fonts and full screen. None of this tiny little
window with some little 6x7 font.
Ben.
8:17 p.m.
How hard is it to add a serial port to a
"smartphone"?
Fred,
Take a look at:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.kai_morich.serial_usb_termi
nal&hl=en_US
I am sure there are others out there as well...
-Ali
12:37 p.m.
what is the date?? Would have? been a? wonderful? device? for a? journalist to? connect?
to a? mainframe? with...? ?Ed#
?
In a message dated 9/8/2018 11:25:59 PM US Mountain Standard Time, cctalk at
classiccmp.org writes:
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Data General made a nifty and flexible terminal called "Walkabout". It
had 32kb of internal memory one could use to take notes on the move. It
ran on a 12volt wall wart which charged an onboard nicad battery.
The lcd screen is not backlit but it was useable in most any light.
The sliders on the face note-book-like machine controlled contrast and
darkness. I used one as the head unit for my Data General MV4000/DC.
The battery is likely dead on any you'll find, but it is easily
accessible by a sliding cover on the side which when removed reveals a
pack you can unplug and replace without tools.
It supported a fair list of emulations selectable on-screen including
vt220 and vt100 plus various proprietary 'Dasher' emulations. The
keyboard is better than most modern-day notebooks, it is VERY light-
weight and pretty sturdy. Here's a link to a photo.
http://www.digibarn.com/collections/systems/dg-walkabout/DSC06218.JPG
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