On Sat, Sep 8, 2018 at 2:41 PM, Zane Healy via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > >> On Sep 7, 2018, at 10:55 PM, Josh Dersch via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> >> wrote: >> >> TI made a clamshell portable VT220-compatible terminal with an LCD screen, >> the Travelmate LT220. It's very nice, the LCD is high-contrast (but no >> backlight) and it even has a built in 2400bps modem. I believe it can run >> off of a battery as well. It's very handy. >> >> There's a picture of one near the bottom of this page: >> http://ummr.altervista.org/sistemi_x86.htm >> <http://ummr.altervista.org/sistemi_x86.htm> >> >> - Josh > > That’s an interesting terminal. Totally pointless for me, but it would be > cool.
I have a Zenith ZFL-181-93 that I treat like the LT220 - it boots to DOS 3.3 off of 3.5" 720K floppy and the only application on it is Kermit. It makes a nice portable terminal that way that if I ever got around to it, I could replace the stack of NiCd C-cells and run off battery power, but it works fine from wall power. I think it would be cool to have an LCD dumb terminal but an old 8088 LCD laptop that runs DOS and Kermit is the next best thing. One thing I can do with the Zenith is run a Xircom Pocket Ethernet adapter off the printer port and (with the right packet driver shim) do Kermit over TCP/IP, not just over serial. That's very nice in a closed environment where one can tolerate using telnet. -ethan