[rescue] Anyone build this kit?

[Barry Keeney]

On Fri, 1 Oct 2021, Lionel Peterson wrote:

> It's a placeholder for me - I've got a couple of those great Dec Terminal
> bases that took a VGA monitor and ps/2(?) keyboard, (VT520?) but I can't put
> my hands on them...

    I remember those, They came out after DEC moved production from the
plant in my home town to Mexico... Quality went to SH*T and sales nose
dived. They moved it back but too late to restore their rep...

    I saw a few of these once I started working at one of the
goverment labs, they had more then a few Vaxes floating around and
I made the mistake of talking about VMS and *BOOM* someone dropped
a Vax for me to support, really two, main one and a smaller one
that was new enough to run the backup tape drive....


> I've got a 14" Dell VGA flat-panel display that this will mate perfectly
> with.

   I've got two 10" vga LCD's would be great for these...

> Ken
>
>> On Oct 1, 2021, at 15:03, Barry Keeney <barryk at chaoscon.com> wrote:
>>
>> o;?    Looks cool, I might build one or two when they're back in stock...
>>
>>    But I'm not getting rid of my VT's, they're way to hard to find
>> these days...
>>
>>> On Thu, 30 Sep 2021, Lionel Peterson wrote:
>>>
>>> I recently went looking for a serial terminal for various hobby reasons,
> and
>>> soon discovered that actual serial terminals can be quite expensive, even
> old,
>>> crusty ones.
>>>
>>> I came across this on Tindie, and decided to give it a try. It looks like
> it's
>>> pretty flexible, to the point I can probably easily attach it to the case
> on a
>>> low-res LCD display for a zero footprint serial terminal. It uses a PS/2
>>> keyboard and a VGA monitor.
>>>
>>> https://www.tindie.com/products/petrohi/geoffs-vt100-terminal-kit/
>>>
>>> It's a bit pricey at $52 + $10 shipping, but if it works as good as
> everyone
>>> of the reviews says, it's a bargain.
>>>
>>> Thoughts?
>>>
>>> Ken
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>>
>> Barry Keeney
>> Chaos Consulting
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>>
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Barry Keeney
Chaos Consulting
email barryk at chaoscon.com

"Atheist: A person who doesn't need imaginary friends"

"Rap is Square Dancing gone terribly, terribly Wrong...."

"MicroSoft Windows - Running our defences until they all bluescreen during the Cylon attack..."