Elektronomikon

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

Oct 17, 2023 at 6:21pmWeb
Show threadElektronomikonOct 18, 2023

Turned the "system" back on today to find the lowercase-characters again as uppercase with white background (to be clear, this is intended behavior of the terminal)

But, TIL:
agetty -U
this checks if the login-name is typed all uppercase and
_then, and only then_
enables the "send all lower- as uppercase characters"

#linux #software_harder_than_hardware

Show threadRetroWizzardOct 18, 2023
@elektronomikon
Amazing!👍
I have the same terminal in the attic.
I put it there because it's also missing its host machine, but this opens new possibilities.