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Oscilloscope doubles as a serial terminal
- jff 17y agoThat is pure art.
- sliverstorm 17y agoThis is crazysexycool! Only thing that makes me sad is our good digital scopes probably wouldn't work w/ this. Of course, on the other hand, that'd kind of defeat the purpose ;)
- blasdel 17y agoPshaw, it's raster and since it doesn't fit 80 columns in I can't play nethack on it! I've been meaning to get an Apple IIc to use as a serial terminal: http://www.bytecellar.com/archives/000113.php http://www.bytecellar.com/archives/000113.php I've had some Wyse terms before that sucked, and I've unsuccessfully bid on eBay for ADM-3A terminals before, but I kind of ran out of steam on pure-hardware terminals when I discovered that GNU Screen can open character devices directly! I only need to get a serial console on something a few times a year, but when I do I really need it to work, whether I'm getting console on a network device, an embedded ultrasound machine, or a case full of modems I'm hacking. GNU Screen satisfies that need perfectly, especially since I'm always working in it already. I like the idea of the Apple IIc terminal because it combines the warm fuzzies of ancient greenscreen hardware with the not-sucking-ass of a pure-software terminal emulator implementation. That it's cute and diminutive is a bonus.
- nitrogen 17y agoPutty works reasonably well in Linux, though from the sound of things you prefer a CLI. For those times when a GUI just won't cut it, I use the cu program for lightweight, easy access to a serial device.
- nitrogen 17y agoI always wanted to do something like that with my scope's XY display. The TA in my intro to EE class a couple of years ago was unimpressed when I set up my function generator to generate horizontal and vertical scan sweeps instead of the Lissajous she was expecting..