On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 4:29 AM, Jon Elson <el...@pico-systems.com> 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 that was apparently used in France and maybe Canada for > telephone directory lookup and similar uses. I believe it was called a > Minitel. It had a TINY CRT screen, maybe 5 x 7". It used a standard 40-pin > microprocessor and other standard parts. I junked mine because it would > randomly reset every minute or so, and I didn't really have a use for it. I > think mine was smaller than the one in the Wikipedia article, but it did > look similar to that. There are some on eBay, but they are all from France > and Belgium. Interface was pure serial RS-232.
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! Mike