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2015-10-27 Thread Brent Hilpert
On 2015-Oct-25, at 8:29 AM, Jon Elson wrote: > On 10/24/2015 08:54 PM, Mike Ross wrote: >> For reasons too abstruse to explain in detail I'm on the lookout for >> terminals that are, physically, really small - especially serial and >> coax 3270, and possibly twinax 5250. >> >> > I had a thing

Re: Oddball question: really small terminals

2015-10-26 Thread Jon Elson
On 10/25/2015 08:32 PM, william degnan wrote: On Oct 25, 2015 8:54 PM, "Jon Elson" wrote: On 10/25/2015 05:27 PM, Mike Ross wrote: A pull-out keyboard in the base? I have one too. Would be perfect if it worked, and I had half a dozen of them! No, mine did NOT have

RE: Oddball question: really small terminals

2015-10-26 Thread Dave G4UGM
> -Original Message- > From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Jon Elson > Sent: 26 October 2015 19:09 > To: gene...@classiccmp.org; discuss...@classiccmp.org:On-Topic and Off- > Topic Posts <cctalk@classiccmp.org> > Subject: Re: Oddbal

Re: Oddball question: really small terminals

2015-10-25 Thread Pontus Pihlgren
I think you want a Minec 1000. but it's a very rare beast. It talks 3270 and VT100. https://www.flickr.com/photos/zachetus/535850501/ /P On Sun, Oct 25, 2015 at 02:54:41PM +1300, Mike Ross wrote: > For reasons too abstruse to explain in detail I'm on the lookout for > terminals that are,

RE: Oddball question: really small terminals

2015-10-25 Thread tony duell
> > For reasons too abstruse to explain in detail I'm on the lookout for > terminals that are, physically, really small - especially serial and > coax 3270, and possibly twinax 5250. > > Yes you could do things with small laptops and PDAs with PCMCIA cards > and adapters and software - I know a

Re: Oddball question: really small terminals

2015-10-25 Thread Glen Slick
On Sat, Oct 24, 2015 at 10:35 PM, Mike Ross wrote: > > This is along the right lines, although it's a TCP/IP network device > without serial or 3270 ports for direct connection, and it doesn't > have a screen: > > http://www.axel.com/uk/id_M75.html > I have a couple of AX3000

Re: Oddball question: really small terminals

2015-10-25 Thread Jason T
On Oct 24, 2015 8:54 PM, "Mike Ross" wrote: > But really I'd prefer a compact all-in one solution; a one-piece > terminal. Any suggestions? I'm open to both LCDs and *small* CRTs. > Preferably colour! > First thing that comes to mind are the Informer terminals. They had

Re: Oddball question: really small terminals

2015-10-25 Thread Mike Ross
On Sun, Oct 25, 2015 at 8:36 PM, tony duell wrote: >> >> For reasons too abstruse to explain in detail I'm on the lookout for >> terminals that are, physically, really small - especially serial and >> coax 3270, and possibly twinax 5250. >> >> Yes you could do things

RE: Oddball question: really small terminals

2015-10-25 Thread Dave Wade
> -Original Message- > From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Mike Ross > Sent: 25 October 2015 09:19 > To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts > <cctalk@classiccmp.org> > Subject: Re: Oddball question: really small termi

Re: Oddball question: really small terminals

2015-10-25 Thread Mike Ross
On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 3:19 AM, tony duell wrote: > [HP Palmtops, 95LX etc] >> Oh those look pretty good; I love the terminal emulator in ROM; >> doesn't even need an OS, switch it on and it works; that's one of the >> things I'm after. Shame about the rather nasty

Re: Oddball question: really small terminals

2015-10-25 Thread Fred Cisin
"physically really small" means different things to different people. It 45 years ago, a "mini-computer" was considered to be "really small". So small that they gave it a special name to refer to how tiny it was. Sony tried to call their Vaio "ultra-portable", which was rather laughable

Re: Oddball question: really small terminals

2015-10-25 Thread Glen Slick
On Sun, Oct 25, 2015 at 8:43 PM, Mike Ross wrote: > > Well I had forgotten I had pretty much what I was looking for in the > Corestore collection already! > > http://www.corestore.org/terms.jpg > > Two terminals the size of small pizza boxes using external VGA > displays. On

Re: Oddball question: really small terminals

2015-10-25 Thread Mike Ross
On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 4:29 AM, Jon Elson wrote: > On 10/24/2015 08:54 PM, Mike Ross wrote: >> >> For reasons too abstruse to explain in detail I'm on the lookout for >> terminals that are, physically, really small - especially serial and >> coax 3270, and possibly twinax

Re: Oddball question: really small terminals

2015-10-25 Thread william degnan
On Oct 25, 2015 8:54 PM, "Jon Elson" wrote: > > On 10/25/2015 05:27 PM, Mike Ross wrote: >> >> >> A pull-out keyboard in the base? I have one too. Would be perfect if >> it worked, and I had half a dozen of them! >> >> > No, mine did NOT have a pull-out or fold-down kbd,

RE: Oddball question: really small terminals

2015-10-25 Thread tony duell
[HP Palmtops, 95LX etc] > Oh those look pretty good; I love the terminal emulator in ROM; > doesn't even need an OS, switch it on and it works; that's one of the > things I'm after. Shame about the rather nasty looking monochrome LCD Actually, there is an OS -- MS-DOS -- and it's in ROM too.

Re: Oddball question: really small terminals

2015-10-25 Thread Mike Ross
On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 3:19 AM, tony duell wrote: > [HP Palmtops, 95LX etc] >> Oh those look pretty good; I love the terminal emulator in ROM; >> doesn't even need an OS, switch it on and it works; that's one of the >> things I'm after. Shame about the rather nasty

Re: Oddball question: really small terminals

2015-10-25 Thread Jon Elson
On 10/24/2015 08:54 PM, Mike Ross wrote: For reasons too abstruse to explain in detail I'm on the lookout for terminals that are, physically, really small - especially serial and coax 3270, and possibly twinax 5250. I had a thing that was apparently used in France and maybe Canada for

Re: Oddball question: really small terminals

2015-10-25 Thread COURYHOUSE
I wonder if - http://www.brielcomputers.com/wordpress/?cat=25 can be hacked to do Baudot at 60 wpm? Ed# In a message dated 10/25/2015 7:29:19 A.M. US Mountain Standard Time, tmfdm...@gmail.com writes: These are the best bet I've seen for serial terminals so far:

Re: Oddball question: really small terminals

2015-10-25 Thread Fred Cisin
> > For reasons too abstruse to explain in detail I'm on the lookout for > > terminals that are, physically, really small - especially serial and > > coax 3270, and possibly twinax 5250. How small is "really small"? IBM made a terminal with a 5" screen for the 4704 banking systems.

Re: Oddball question: really small terminals

2015-10-24 Thread COURYHOUSE
yes we have one line LED letter terminals used for Deaf and hard of Hearing. we will buy more of them too. do you have any of them? ASCII or BAUDOT either for our Deaf Telecom diaplay. Drop me a line offlist thanks Ed Sharpe archivist for SMECC In a message dated 10/24/2015 8:44:59

Oddball question: really small terminals

2015-10-24 Thread Mike Ross
For reasons too abstruse to explain in detail I'm on the lookout for terminals that are, physically, really small - especially serial and coax 3270, and possibly twinax 5250. Yes you could do things with small laptops and PDAs with PCMCIA cards and adapters and software - I know a guy who kept a

Re: Oddball question: really small terminals

2015-10-24 Thread Alexandre Souza
16 char x 1 line is small enough? :) Em 25/10/2015 01:34, "Chuck Guzis" escreveu: > On 10/24/2015 08:10 PM, Cindy Croxton wrote: > >> How small is "really small"? IBM made a terminal with a 5" screen for >> the 4704 banking systems. http://frente-cajas.blogspot.com/ >> > > I've

Re: Oddball question: really small terminals

2015-10-24 Thread Fred Cisin
The Epson RC-20 wrist watch (30 years ago) had serial port, RAM, ROM, and sort of a Z80. But, nobody ever brought up CP/M on it.

RE: Oddball question: really small terminals

2015-10-24 Thread Cindy Croxton
eral Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts Subject: Oddball question: really small terminals For reasons too abstruse to explain in detail I'm on the lookout for terminals that are, physically, really small - especially serial and coax 3270, and possibly twinax 5250. Yes you could do things wit

RE: Oddball question: really small terminals

2015-10-24 Thread Fred Cisin
On Sat, 24 Oct 2015, Cindy Croxton wrote: How small is "really small"? IBM made a terminal with a 5" screen for the 4704 banking systems. http://frente-cajas.blogspot.com/ And the Atari Portfolio runs a version of DR-DOS. And the Poqet ran MS-DOS. Both have serial ports available. Both will

Re: Oddball question: really small terminals

2015-10-24 Thread Charles Anthony
On Sat, Oct 24, 2015 at 8:39 PM, Alexandre Souza < alexandre.tabaj...@gmail.com> wrote: > 16 char x 1 line is small enough? :) > Em 25/10/2015 01:34, "Chuck Guzis" escreveu: > > > On 10/24/2015 08:10 PM, Cindy Croxton wrote: > > > >> How small is "really small"? IBM made a