[geeks] RE: portable vt100

[Earl Baugh]

A basic Palm with one of the "fold-able" keyboards makes for a very
reasonable console.   Even the older Palms work with these, so you
can get one pretty cheaply. (the kbd's run various $$ amounts, but
$100 gets a pretty decent one).  I saw (but have since lost the link...
I'd kill to find it) an adapter which let you plug a standard PC kbd
into a Palm (and also had a mouse port, so you could plug in one
of those CueCat scanners, and have a handy-dandy bar code scanner...
great for cataloging your CD collection...)

I've not played with this type of solution with my Handspring Visor Prism
yet, but that's because I've been spending my toy money on springboard
modules....

Earl


>From: Bill Bradford <mrbill at mrbill.net>
>To: geeks at mrbill.net, rescue at mrbill.net
>Subject: [geeks] smallest portable vt100?
>
>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'm tired of not having a console available for machines when I need one
>while installing boxes in the datacenter....)
>
>I've been looking at getting a Poquet PC 
>(http://www.cadigital.com/palmtop.htm),
>but they're around $150, which is more than what I wanted to spend.
>
>There's always the Palm/Newton angle, but I want something with a *real*
>keyboard.
>
>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...
>
>80x25 screen, 9600 baud serial port (standard DB9 or DB25), and decent
>keyboard with all keys (esc, etc) is pretty much all I require.
>
>Suggestions?
>
>Bill