On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 11:38 AM, Dave Wilson <[email protected]> wrote: > In my grandfather's attic (RIP) I unearthed one of these: > > http://www.omnidatasys.net/product/spec_dataterminal_ti703.htm > > which in a nutshell is a paper terminal which runs at 300 baud. > > I figured it could be fun to set it up as a serial console on one of my > machines, and maybe useful if I left it tailing logfiles to a hard copy > or perhaps using it for a machine I have which keeps PANICing > > So I edited the line in /etc/ttys for tty00 to be: > > tty00 "/usr/libexec/getty std.300" vt100 on > > and now (after some init HUPing) I get a login prompt, and it takes my > username. When I try and give it a password however, it turns off echo, > but it never seems to notice the carriage return. It just sits there. If > I send a break, it wakes up and says login incorrect, so it's not > completely died. >
I would try dumbing it down - a vt100 is a pretty complex beast. Searching in /etc/termcap for "paper" yields tty33 and tty37 as options: #### Teletype (tty) # # These are the hardcopy Teletypes from before AT&T bought the company, # clattering electromechanical dinosaurs in Bakelite cases that printed on # pulpy yellow roll paper. If you remember these you go back a ways. # Teletype-branded VDTs are listed in the AT&T section. # I don't remeber these but I do have fond memories of decwriters clattering away in the CS lab. If those don't work you could man 5 termcap and make up your own entry... -N
