Hey Mike, thanks for the suggestion! I found an eBay auction for TWO of these serial/parallel add-ons plus a 128K RAM card. If I buy this, would anyone like to take the second unit off my hands? I have one 5140 and I intend to keep it that way.
=] -- Anders Nelson +1 (517) 775-6129 www.erogear.com On Sun, May 27, 2018 at 2:10 PM, Michael Brutman <[email protected]> wrote: > Forgive me for replying to a nearly month-old post. > > You definitely want the "serial/parallel" slice option. They are > relatively cheap on eBay. Besides all of the goodness of the serial port, > you can also get a Xircom PE3-10BT Ethernet adapter that attaches to the > parallel port and connect it to a modern network. > > Using it as a terminal is cute. Running telnet on it natively and playing > Netris is cool. :-) > > On a slightly different topic, the tech ref describes the interface to the > LCD screen. I have a few bad LCD screens - they have lines through them. > I've thought about trying to debug them, but the thought of just replacing > them outright with newer tech that can do color is really appealing too. > (The original screens are LCDs, sometimes with a backlight option. But > they can do greyscale, so detecting the levels and doing color should be > feasible.) > > On Sat, Apr 28, 2018 at 7:57 AM, Anders Nelson via cctalk < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Hey all, >> >> I have an IBM 5140 portable with a printer but I'd really like to use it >> as >> a terminal among other things. Any chance there's documentation available >> for that Centronics connector or another internal header with RS232 or >> whatever? >> >> =] >> -- >> -- >> Anders Nelson >> +1 (517) 775-6129 >> www.erogear.com >> > >
