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Building a serial and VGA "everything console" (oldvcr.blogspot.com)
schobi 10 hours ago [-]
This post describes how to take an off the shelf VT100 serial console emulator and connect a USB keyboard and VGA monitor. This device https://www.tindie.com/products/retromodem/dec-vt100-mini-te...

This post spends a lot of attention on how to fasten, glue and adapt a specific existing keyboard and monitor from a 1U rack mounted console. If I would need a similar serial console, it will end up differently - just because my parts are different.

kator 9 hours ago [-]
Might keep this in mind if you go to tindie:

> URGENT

> Tindie has not paid me for the last month. They take your money for your order and then require me to ship product to you, but they do not pay me. Temporarily, please place your order through the tattlersolutions.com website. See below

lloydatkinson 8 hours ago [-]
Is that bullshit still going on with Tindie?
rbanffy 12 hours ago [-]
The VT-100 emulation seems very accurate, down to the pixel level.

I wonder if there is anyone doing VT-340 emulation like that - shouldn’t be impossible to transpile the ROMs to something modern (I guess this is what was done here) and fill in the hardware support gaps.

fmajid 9 hours ago [-]
Specially if they used less memory constrained device like a RPi Zero instead of an esp32 and HDMI instead of VGA.
nryoo 8 hours ago [-]
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