[rescue] Re: Small serial terminal

[Robert Novak]

On Mon, 17 Feb 2003, Bill Bradford wrote:

> 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 used to have a Powerlite 170 as a serial terminal. That's even worse. :)

> 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.

I have some VT320s and VT4x0s here, just the little monitor and the LK201
keyboard.  Cheap plus shipping. :) 

I also saw a 9" or so mono VGA display at a local shop for $40. If you can
find a small PC and a compact keyboard (I have some with touchpad, or
there are some cool Thinkpad-style keyboards out that are good as well),
that would go well with it. Used to use one as the console for my linux
server. 

I've seen some little tablet-type 486 PCs that could probably boot from
CF/PCMCIA, with a detached keyboard. Something like the one on ebay at
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3402026359 ... DX4, 8MB
ram, 240MB disk should be enough, and you could replace the ATA hard drive
with ATA CF to save energy. And it's battery powered, will take an
external keyboard/mouse.  DOS 6.x and Telix on that critter and you'd be
in business.

Rob
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