On Tue, 19 Jun 2012, Glen Slick wrote:
On Jun 19,
2012 9:19 PM, "jim s" <jws at jwsss.com> wrote:
I think it is anyway,.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/110897384303
Dec VT Lan 40 terminal. Appears that it might take PS2 kb and mouse,
and vga display. $75. Only mention because of the recent threads on
dec terminals and the like.
Is this the same thing?
http://www.keyways.com/vtlan40.html
Sounds like an x86 pizzabox (same size as VT525?) that runs Windows 3.1
and probably just runs a terminal emulator app? If so, doesn't sound
too exciting.
Responding to my own first reply, after reading the linked description
further it boots its software from ROM instead of just being a generic low
end Windows 3.1 box so that somehow makes it seem more interesting to me.
Built in DECNet and LAT support in addition to TCP/IP would be useful for
connecting to DEC boxes too.
Anyone have one of these that they use?
The Digital DE205 "EtherWORKS 3 Turbo Plus" is an ISA card, so it
certainly has some sort of PC type hardware under the hood. The bracket
and connector placement alone gave it away as a DE205 even before I
noticed it mentioned further down in the listing. The 205 was the only DEC
ethernet card that I'm aware of that had the two LEDs in between the AUI
and BNC connectors.
One of the archived posts from comp.terminals
ftp://ftp.cs.utk.edu/pub/shuford/terminal/dec_terminals_news.txt mentions
"The windowing interface is a burned-in customized subset of Microsoft
Windows." so I guess it used some part of Windows 3.1.
It sounds like it -might- be 386SX based. Can anyone confirm this?
I can think of some real benefits to a terminal that supports a PS/2
keyboard and VGA monitor, including IP-based KVM systems.
If I could only find an inexpensive flyback for my VT340...