27 Nov
2002
27 Nov
'02
9:24 a.m.
On Wed, 27 Nov 2002, Sellam Ismail wrote:
On Tue, 26 Nov 2002, Ethan Dicks wrote:
Lucky ;P
I came across a portable VT once in a resale shop, but the guy wanted $$$
for it, so I dunno what became of it. It looked like a 8-9" black cube,
and the keyboard folded down to expose the screen. The keyboard wasn't
full size, but for temporary applications, I don't think that would matter
much.
Say, why don't the folks who want to turn laptop into a terminal look into
a bootable PCMCIA memory card. Even 4MB or so would be enough to load a
Linux kernel (or *BSD ;P) with libc and minicom, or even DOS 5 with
Procomm Plus 2.0. Most of the 486 laptops I've used had a bios setting
that allowed booting such PCMCIA memory devices...
-Toth
So has anyone else wrestled with how to cobble up
a portable VT-100?
Anyone get any further?
Nope. I just use my Psion Seris 5. It does everything you describe
(portable instant on VT-100 terminal) and more ;)