old terminals...

This topic reminds me to ask - are there any deeply detailed docs for DEC terminals out there? I'm thinking of schematics for VT100s through VT240s (since I have just about one of everything). One "project" I just thought of was to take the board from a real VT220 and wrap it in just enough stuff to be able to plug either an LK201 or a modern PS/2 or USB keyboard into one end, and a VGA monitor into the other end - keyboard conversion would most likely take a microcontroller, and converting the video to something at 31KHz (VGA frequencies) might be a bit cumbersome to do (perhaps by grafting on an Amiga flicker-fixer-like circuit), but to have a brick about the size of a hardback book that one feeds +12VDC to, that _is_ a real terminal, might be an interesting thing to have around the house. One could drop it onto a KVM or just put it in ones toolbag as a portable terminal, to be used with a keyboard and monitor already at the destination site. A VT240 slab is reminiscent of this, in that it doesn't have an integral monitor, but it's a lot larger than a wrapped VT220 mainboard would be, and they aren't as common as VT220s. Perhaps this is yet another thing better done with a microcontroller and emulation software, but it's mostly a hardware project to take an existing, known-compatible board from a classic product rather than to roll one's own. -ethan