[geeks] smallest portable vt100?

[David Cantrell]

On Tue, May 29, 2001 at 09:50:35AM +0100, Will Mc Donald wrote:
> From: "David Cantrell" <david at cantrell.org.uk>
> > On Tue, May 29, 2001 at 02:54:29AM -0500, Bill Bradford wrote:
> >
> > > I have a need for a small-as-possible-but-still-decent-keyboard
> > > portable computer/handheld/etc capable of functioning as a
> > > 9600 baud serial console terminal (VT100 emulation) for a Sun
> > > machine, that can run on batteries for two hours or so while driving
> > > the serial port.
> >
> > I need an even smaller serial terminal.  I'm into wearables, and would
> > like to drive my head-mounted display from a serial port.  So I need a
> > serial-to-VGA adapter :-)
> >
> > > I'll go with an older P75 laptop if I *have* to, but something smaller
> that
> > > I could carry in a backpack or kit bag would be best...
> >
> > Libretto.  Or maybe a Psion.
> >
> > --
> > David Cantrell
> 
> We had a Sun engineer in the other day using his phone for this. I can't
> remember if it was a Nokia or an Erricson but it was one of those fold-open
> Communicator-type jobs. Very cool. I don't know what battery life would be
> like though.

Nokia Communicator?  The battery life is reasonable, but not great.  Using
it as a phone, you can go a couple of days without recharging, but use the
modem or any of the computery functions and it drains a lot quicker.

There's a new Communicator just out.  Colour screen, plenty of RAM, and a
half-way decent OS.  As well as some BASIC-a-like language built-in, many
others are available, including perl and python.  It also does ssh, telnet
and dumb-terminal stuff.  Not sure of availability in .us, as AFAIK it's
GSM-only.  And there's not many of them in .eu yet anyway.

I MUST HAVE ONE!

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