I still use serial terminals too, also a VT520. The 520 is a bit more modern than the others, it allows PC keyboards (PS/2) and higher speeds. The vt220 would a

I still use serial terminals too, also a VT520. The 520 is a bit more modern than the others, it allows PC keyboards (PS/2) and higher speeds. The vt220 would already choke on faster streams than 19200 IIRC. It also has more spacious modes than 80x24. I don't use it for everything but one of the nice things is that it is easy to concentrate on something. No chance of procrastinating by opening facebook :) And as a debugging / recovery tool it's sometimes handy, when the whole GUI side is crashed I can still kill some processes. Sometimes I can't switch to a text CLI console even. And the retro feel simply appeals to me. I know it's not for everyone. I've actually been thinking of making something like a modern terminal. Like a Raspberry pi with an SSH client in baremetal so it boots really quickly, with easily switchable font sizes etc. But it's too much work I don't think I'll get around to it. Maybe I'll skip the baremetal part and just go for fbterm on a really cut-down Linux distro, that might work.