VT340 Emulation

[Douglas Taylor]

Someone already did this with a TEK4010 emulation:  See

https://github.com/rricharz/Tek4010

Hmmm... You could use a Raspberry Pi to emulate a number of terminals.

Doug

On 6/22/2021 3:49 AM, emanuel stiebler via cctalk wrote:
> On 2021-06-22 01:03, Grant Taylor via cctalk wrote:
>
>> I'm now wondering about building something like a Raspberry Pi with an
>> LCD display (native resolution?)
> Be careful. The "native" resolution of the vt340 is 800x480 in 4:3
> format ...
>
> So I would use an 15" 4K display at the RBpi, and scale up...
>
> Imagine a Tekronox Emulation on a 4K display ;-)
>
>> in a custom case that's stylaized after
>> the VT340 (?) case, all be it abbreviated so that it's much shallower.
>> I'd probably simply run a full screen XTerm without any window manager.
>> (I might have a different way to start with a window manager and
>> traditional GUI.)
>> I could support serial, but if I'm using an SBC, why not use Ethernet
>> (or even WiFI)???
> I would love to see REAL RS232 on a RBPi, probably even the original MMJ
> from DEC for keyboard & mouse
>