Integrating a VT220 into my life
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Integrating a VT220 into my life
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Re: Integrating a VT220 into my life
#2I wanted to do this, but used VTs are pretty expensive (mostly the cost of shipping).
I do have an old French Minitel terminal, though - anyone know what the protocol for those is like?
Re: Integrating a VT220 into my life
#3I feel old; I used a Wyse 320 and later a VT220 as my sole / main IO device in 1995-96 - connected to a SPARCstation 10 via a multi-port serial box at 9600 baud, with heavy use of GNU Screen.
Even now, I still use a variation on that - a tall terminal window, ssh, and screen - for the majority of my work.
Re: Integrating a VT220 into my life
#4I wanted to do this, but used VTs are pretty expensive (mostly the cost of shipping). I do have an old French Minitel terminal, though - anyone know what the protocol for those is like?
Re: Integrating a VT220 into my life
#5I was discussing an identical project with a coworker a while back, and have been stalking ebay for VT2X0s occasionally since. However they seem to be incredibly rare in the UK, and all the listings shown require shipping from the US with monstrous fees.
Although my idea was not necessarily integration in to my work flow, more a dashboard of network/server stats etc.
Re: Integrating a VT220 into my life
#6I wanted to do this, but used VTs are pretty expensive (mostly the cost of shipping). I do have an old French Minitel terminal, though - anyone know what the protocol for those is like?
Re: Integrating a VT220 into my life
#7Or you could just run cool-retro-term[1] for the similar visual effect.
Re: Integrating a VT220 into my life
#8I can't remember the exact model number, but a company sold gas-plasma-discharge orange-on-black compact "flat panel" VT220 clones years ago.
I owned one for a while before selling it off (along with a 19" gas plasma flat panel for a MicroVAX that I got at Goodwill for $25 - now THAT was a steal that I turned into a nice profit!).
Re: Integrating a VT220 into my life
#9Looking at that workspace I just need
- another large monitor
- my MTG cards collection back
- at least four magic cubes
- a nerf gun
and ... a VT220. At least I got that very same keyboard already.
Seriously, that looks like a really nice working space, completely ignoring the fact that I just learned about sway (I'm on i3 here) in the process.
Re: Integrating a VT220 into my life
#10I can't remember the exact model number, but a company sold gas-plasma-discharge orange-on-black compact "flat panel" VT220 clones years ago. I owned one for a while before selling it off (along with a 19" gas plasma flat panel for a MicroVAX that I got at Goodwill for $25 - now THAT was a steal that I turned into a nice profit!).
Hmm, seem to recall Wyse had a gas-plasma display. The Googles do nothing to turn up a model #, though. Several vendors made them, with Wyse being the more popular brand IIRC, and early Toshiba laptops used them (had a 386 with a gas-plasma display).