1 Oct
2018
1 Oct
'18
6:52 p.m.
On Sat, Sep 8, 2018 at 2:41 PM, Zane Healy via cctalk
<cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
I have a Zenith ZFL-181-93 that I treat like the LT220 - it boots to
DOS 3.3 off of 3.5" 720K floppy and the only application on it is
Kermit. It makes a nice portable terminal that way that if I ever got
around to it, I could replace the stack of NiCd C-cells and run off
battery power, but it works fine from wall power.
I think it would be cool to have an LCD dumb terminal but an old 8088
LCD laptop that runs DOS and Kermit is the next best thing. One thing
I can do with the Zenith is run a Xircom Pocket Ethernet adapter off
the printer port and (with the right packet driver shim) do Kermit
over TCP/IP, not just over serial. That's very nice in a closed
environment where one can tolerate using telnet.
-ethan
On Sep 7, 2018, at 10:55 PM, Josh Dersch via
cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
TI made a clamshell portable VT220-compatible terminal with an LCD screen,
the Travelmate LT220. It's very nice, the LCD is high-contrast (but no
backlight) and it even has a built in 2400bps modem. I believe it can run
off of a battery as well. It's very handy.
There's a picture of one near the bottom of this page:
http://ummr.altervista.org/sistemi_x86.htm
<http://ummr.altervista.org/sistemi_x86.htm>
- Josh
That?s an interesting terminal. Totally pointless for me, but it would be cool.