"Dialed" into the Mac Studio wirelessly across the room for some IRCing on old hardware, here as the snow falls. ❄️

I had to modify the plist and shell config scripts I'd setup on the Mac since "upgrading" to macOS 26 Tahoe to get this working without gripes in the terminal.

#Mac #macOS #terminal #serialterminal #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #retrocomputers #computinginthesnow #AppleII #AppleIIe #MacStudio #ProTerm #BBSing #IRCing #BBS #IRC #WiFi232 #login #telnet #WiFimodem #computers #CRT #floppydrive #ByteCellar #BASH #photo #UNIX

I have just constructed this PIC32 microcontroller based serial terminal on veroboard. It supports a PS2 or USB keyboard, and drives a VGA or composite video output.

But will it work?

#PIC32 #SerialTerminal #RS232 #Electronics #VintageComputing
[17/04/2021]

Finally finished the last piece of the hardware flow control puzzle for my Wyse Wy-55. It now supports full 115200 baud, which makes it possible to experience the Fedi Fire Hose.

#Wyse #SerialTerminal #Emacs #Terminal #NixOS #Linux

Driving an OLED Screen With A 6502 Single-Board Computer

#softwaredevelopment #6502 #assembly #raspberrypi #serialterminal #terminal #hackaday

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BasicFour 7230 Terminal from 1975

Connected to RaspberryPi pin header via MAX232 transciever over the big DB25 connectors on the back.
There is text scrolling by, but all lowercase characters are instead uppercase with white background.
set to 9600 baud and VT52 (i also added the -U switch for upper-/lower case switching).
in /lib/systemd/system/[email protected]

Enable for ttyAMA0

Now i'll just have to get rid of the cataract :-)
#serialterminal #vintagecomputing

Random vintage computing blog post of mine, since...it's Thursday.

"Modern-Day BBSing on the Epson PX-8 CP/M Laptop, Circa 1984"

https://bytecellar.com/2018/04/14/modern-day-bbsing-on-the-epson-px-8-cp-m-laptop-circa-1984/

#vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #BBS #serialterminal #terminal #IRC #CPM #Z80 #maker #vintagetech #tech #vintagecomputers #laptops #Epson #blog #video

An Old Typewriter Speaks To The World

Typewriters are something which was once ubiquitous, yet which abruptly faded away and are now a rare sight. There was a period of a few years in which electric typewriters and computers existed side-by-side though, and it's one of these which [Jonah Brüchert] has experimented with connecting to a computer for use as a printer or terminal.

The machine in question is a SIGMA SM 8200i typewriter, which is a rebadged version of the East German Erika S3004. It has an intriguing 26-pin connector on its side which provides access to a 1200 baud serial port. It uses its own character encoding dubbed "gdrascii", for which there is a Python library that he could port to Rust. The result is a terminal in the old style, from the days when access to a computer was through a teletype rather than a screen. All that's missing is a punched tape reader at its side!

We've featured a lot of typewriters here over the ears, but this isn't the first that has received a terminal conversion.

#classichacks #computerhacks #serialterminal #teleprinter #typewriter