[Suns-at-Home] Apple Terminal

[Ted Palmer]

Ben wrote:

> All this talk lately about using old Apple machines as serial  
> terminals came to a head this weekend when a friend emailed me these  
> links saying "Seen these?"
[...]

I must have missed that thread.

I have dealt enough with serial terminals over the years to have no
remaining fascination for them.
I still have a genuine VT101 taking up space somewhere and a clone
VT220 unit. The VT101 probably uses more power and makes more heat
than a hyperactive Pentium 4.

If I feel the need to carry a portable terminal, a Palm Vx with a
custom serial cable and a bit of software can do the job.
Seeing the serial boot output from a headless Sun server is about 
the only use for it I can think of.
I think I might have used a modem with the Palm once to remotely
dial into my 386 PC (running a UUCP leaf node on Coherent OS) just
for the hell of it.
Using the Palm screen is only slightly less cumbersome than trying
to type on an original VT10x keyboard.

I think the most pointless thing I did with the VT101 was to redirect
the command line console of a Windows 3.0 system to the serial port. 
It's not as easy as it sounds and not really useful anyway.

Mister_T