[rescue] Small serial terminal

[Curtis H. Wilbar Jr.]

Certain Old laptops work nicely for terminals.

I like the IBM Thinkpad 365X/XD series of laptops.  The X came with
a floppy drive stock and the XD came with a CD-ROM drive stock.
It can't boot from CD, so you probably want an X with a floppy drive.

They had P100, P120, P133, and a very rare P150.  All is needed here
is obviously a P100.

They had two screen sizes 10.4 and 11.1 inch both in DSTN and TFT...
Get the TFT, the 10.4" panel would suffice and is very common.

Another thing you can do with a laptop is get a 2.5" IDE flash drive.

Ultra fast booting, no moving parts to demolish, and I don't think 
read power is bad.

-- Curt

>Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2003 20:28:44 -0600
>From: Bill Bradford <mrbill at mrbill.net>
>To: geeks at sunhelp.org, rescue at sunhelp.org
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>Subject: [rescue] Small serial terminal
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>Okay.  I'm looking for something along the lines of "smallest possible 
>AC and/or battery-powered VT100 compatible serial terminal".  
>
>Having a P3 laptop as a serial terminal is overkill, having a Televideo 
>950 is overkill size and power-wise.  
>
>I've got a Jornada PocketPC at work, but the screen and keyboard is too
>small (has to scroll to do 80x25).
>
>I'd like to avoid using a laptop for this purpose, unless its something
>small that I can boot off a floppy (and not have to power the HD).
>
>I saw a small dedicated serial terminal on eBay once; had all the comm
>functionality in ROM and had no removable media... but I forgot the
>name of it after I lost the auction.
>
>Saw some plasma/LCD (orange! woo!) VT320-compatible units on the net
>once too, but they were above my price range.
>
>Suggestions?  I need one of the below:
>
>a.  flat-panel or similar, uses normal LKxxx keyboard or PS2 keyboard,   
>    AC power, for use at home in space-limited situations.  VT100 or
>    better emulation.
>
>b.  Portable.  Needs to have decent usable keyboard and screen that 
>    handles 80x25 display, with 9600 8N1 serial.  VT100 or better
>    emulation.
>
>Bill
>
>-- 
>bill bradford
>mrbill at mrbill.net
>austin, texas
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