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Recently donated was a mostly dead Toshiba lappy (dead drives, dead screen) which has a serial port.  It's now booting Ubuntu over PXE successfully.  We're looking to hook it up to the vt520.
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<s>Recently donated was a mostly dead Toshiba lappy (dead drives, dead screen) which has a serial port.</s> This is now redundant as I have the same terminal working with a usb to serial adaptor. We can hook the serial terminal up to any computer run something like "exec /sbin/getty -L 56700 ttyUSB0" from /etc/init/ttyUSB0.conf. I would suggest the doorbot because that is always running<s>It's now booting Ubuntu over PXE successfully.  We're looking to hook it up to the vt520.</s>
  
 
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Revision as of 04:56, 7 January 2011

Projects

IRC Terminal
Created 05/01/2010
Members naxxfish,

samthetechie, ajp

QR code


Aim

Retro serial terminal IRC awesomeness.


HackspaceIRCTerminal.jpg

Stephen Blomley brought in a VT520 terminal

Who?

User:samthetechie

User:naxxfish

User:ajp

What?

Make a freestanding (ish) IRC terminal for general use.

Where?

Why?

How?

Recently donated was a mostly dead Toshiba lappy (dead drives, dead screen) which has a serial port. This is now redundant as I have the same terminal working with a usb to serial adaptor. We can hook the serial terminal up to any computer run something like "exec /sbin/getty -L 56700 ttyUSB0" from /etc/init/ttyUSB0.conf. I would suggest the doorbot because that is always running. It's now booting Ubuntu over PXE successfully. We're looking to hook it up to the vt520.

Full 9-Pin to 25-Pin Adapter Pinout
Signal 9-Pin 25-Pin
Carrier Detect 1 8
Receive Data 2 3
Transmit Data 3 2
Data Terminal Ready 4 20
System Ground 5 7
Data Set Ready 6 6
Request to Send 7 4
Clear to Send 8 5
Ring Indicator 9 22


Implemented 9-Pin to 25-Pin Adapter Pinout
Signal 9-Pin 25-Pin
Receive Data 2 3
Transmit Data 3 2
System Ground 5 7

Roadmap:

Where?

Why?

1.
2.

VT520 Reference Manual