On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 4:29 AM, Jon Elson <elson at pico-systems.com> wrote:
On 10/24/2015 08:54 PM, Mike Ross wrote:
For reasons too abstruse to explain in detail I'm on the lookout for
terminals that are, physically, really small - especially serial and
coax 3270, and possibly twinax 5250.
I had a thing that was apparently used in France and maybe Canada for
telephone directory lookup and similar uses. I believe it was called a
Minitel. It had a TINY CRT screen, maybe 5 x 7". It used a standard 40-pin
microprocessor and other standard parts. I junked mine because it would
randomly reset every minute or so, and I didn't really have a use for it. I
think mine was smaller than the one in the Wikipedia article, but it did
look similar to that. There are some on eBay, but they are all from France
and Belgium. Interface was pure serial RS-232.
A pull-out keyboard in the base? I have one too. Would be perfect if
it worked, and I had half a dozen of them!
Mike