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Re: "Hooking Up an Old Serial Terminal on NetBSD"
I did something like this with an old Tandy model 200, a "laptop" that runs a slimmed OS out of ROM and is powered by two AA batteries. I think it's an incredible thing to be able to do. VT-100 emulation is a luxury on this old hardware.
Dec 01 · 2 weeks ago
🚀 stack · Dec 01 at 14:36:
There is something magical about the giant all-in-one terminals...The roundness, the colors, the real mechanical keyboard...
Hooking Up an Old Serial Terminal on NetBSD — I recently got an old Wyse WY-55 terminal hooked up to my NetBSD machine using a USB serial adapter, and I documented the process. I had never set up a "dumb" terminal before so it was a learning experience. Turns out, once I figured out what I was doing, getting NetBSD to communicate with the terminal amounted to adding one line to a text file. Hooray for man pages and text-based configuration! My write up is here: [gemini link]
💬 night-heron · 4 comments · 4 likes · Nov 29 · 3 weeks ago