Modern replica/implementation of a dumb terminal?

Alexander Schreiber wrote: [snip] It actually uses Datalight ROM-DOS -- a ROMable version of MS-DOS 5.0 with most of the utilities removed. Someone (an IT tech, no less) once asked me if I could run Windows 98 on my HP 700LX. My response was "You are joking, right?" :) 200LXs make very nice portable terminals. I'm planning to add an RS232 buffer to mine before it gets connected to any unknown equipment. I've even had the thing grab my e-mail and then dump it into cc:Mail. Lots of fun. And all this with a 1MB RAM drive and an 8MB Sandisk Compactflash card... Do you mean Datacomm? I don't think it's capable of VT100 emulation; I've never seen it, anyway. You can use the FCI Minitek connectors (total pain to wire up without the $200 crimper), but I wouldn't recommend using them. The Harwin 2x5 2mm-pitch connectors look like they'd work, too. Indeed it is - my 700LX has been dropped onto a thick carpet once, a thin carpet once (broke the case latch) and concrete from 4ft in the air once. And it still works. Anyone want to do that to a Palmpilot? I know of a Psion 3c that fell 3ft off a bookshelf (with the clamshell shut) and the LCD glass got shattered! I know the feeling. Linux coredumps, DJGPP SIGSEGVs, Windows bluescreens and the HPLX just locks solid. Later. -- Phil. philpem(a)dsl.pipex.com http://www.philpem.dsl.pipex.com/