25 Aug
2010
25 Aug
'10
2:48 p.m.
In article <20100825002826.GA14137 at n0jcf.net>,
Chris Elmquist <chrise at pobox.com> writes:
I am not a terminal fanatic, but I have a couple of somewhat unusual
accoustically-coupled devices. The first (and I suspect more common) is a
portable thermal prinitng terminal (no, not a Silent 700) with an
accoustic coupler on the back. I've never used the coupler, there is also
an RS232 socket which I have used...
The second isn't a terminal, it's an EPROM programemr (!). It appears to
have been used by some company's field service to download and program
ROMs on-site. A bopx with the accoustic cups on top, a few control
switches and a ZIF socket.
I really must make a phone line simulator and/or a telephone exchange...
(actually the model TLS-4, which a friend loned
to me) I have a
collection of acoustic coupled terminal devices and modems here
[...]
Do tell!
As a fellow terminal freak, I'd love to hear what kind of acoustic
coupled terminal devices you have!
My plan is to do something very similar to what you've done: connect
the terminals to a terminal server and then have hosts reachable from
that. It never occured to me to have vintage hosts running in
emulators on a PC, though, what a great idea! It really completes the
vintage experience. Imparting that vintage terminal experience is
Siurel to _complete_ the vintage experience you should have the real
vintage host (and not an emulator) running on the other end of the line.
That's what I would do.
-tony