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I would love for someone to produce a modern dumb terminal - akin to the Hazeltine/VT100 systems of the past, but using modern components. It'd have multiple s
by mmjaa 9y ago
I would love for someone to produce a modern dumb terminal - akin to the Hazeltine/VT100 systems of the past, but using modern components. It'd have multiple serial ports, and do nothing but act as a dumb terminal for a Unix system - but it'd use modern display tech, maybe something from the elite mechanicalkeyboards world, and so on. I'd buy one for my desktop in a heartbeat - I'm truly sick of all the bloat required just to fire up iTerm.app and so on.
- JdeBP 9y agoMany people have already done this, such as the people who emulate DEC VTs with arduinos and suchlike for starters. * https://github.com/mkschreder/avr-vt100 https://github.com/mkschreder/avr-vt100 * https://hackaday.io/project/13273-diy-vt100-a-miniature-hardware-terminal https://hackaday.io/project/13273-diy-vt100-a-miniature-hard... * https://hackaday.com/2010/02/24/oscilloscope-doubles-as-a-serial-terminal/ https://hackaday.com/2010/02/24/oscilloscope-doubles-as-a-se... * https://tech.scargill.net/vt100-terminal-for-hc2016/ https://tech.scargill.net/vt100-terminal-for-hc2016/
- mmjaa 9y agoQuite nice .. I wonder if there'd be demand for an upscale version of these, sort of more turnkey and less hack.