17 Sep
2001
17 Sep
'01
1:59 a.m.
On Sun, 16 Sep 2001, Blair J. Miller wrote:
I read something about hooking a serial terminal up to
the machine
directly... Forgive me for dumb questions, but I'm assuming a serial
terminal is one of those boxes that I keep seeing that has hookups for mice,
keyboards, SVGA monitors, and the like? Also called a 'Terminal Station' I
believe... Will this work? I don't even know if I'm asking the right
question here, and I could be horribly, stupidly, wrong. :o) This thing
comes from 'way back in the day' for me, before I was even interested in
computers, so I don't know a whole heck of a lot right now. More research I
guess...
I am not familiar with the Terminal station, it might work. Your best bet
for immediate results is to hook the machine to the serial port of a PC or
laptop and run some sort of terminal emulator.
There is the inadequate Hyperterm which comes with Windows which works
in a pinch, or Procomm, Reflections are common commercial packages and
there are a number of freeware packages as well such as minicom for linux.
I use Reflections or minicom to act as a console with my 7011-220.
Paul