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I had a Lear ADM-3A dumb terminal and some TeleVideo clones (912 and 912c) that I acquired right before the pandemic. The cases are beautiful 70s works of art.

I had a Lear ADM-3A dumb terminal and some TeleVideo clones (912 and 912c) that I acquired right before the pandemic. The cases are beautiful 70s works of art. Intended to connect to Raspberry pi’s but never got around to it.

kragen 4y ago
It's easy to do, and you'll be pleased to know that termcap/terminfo supports them, so you can use almost all your usual terminal programs with them. If you run into the occasional exception, you can run it in screen(1), which emulates a VT100-family terminal using terminfo.
- jandrese 4y ago
  For once carrying around that huge database of decades obsolete terminal quirks pays off.
  - kragen 4y ago
    The ADM3A is too limited to have many quirks.
Gordonjcp 4y ago
I rescued a couple of ADM-3A terminals from RGIT many many years ago (like 30 or so) and found they contained the optional lowercase ROMs *and* a board with a 6809, a 6845 and a bunch of RAM as well as a few other things to allow it to emulate a Tek 4016 "storage 'scope" terminal.