[BNM] [OT-ish] hardware hacker wanted

[shardcore]

Thanks for all the helpful responses, however, having dug the thing  
out and powered it up, it looks a little too knackered.

It makes a promising beep, but the screen merely whistles and no  
cursor appears [which I'm led to believe from googling
should display, even when not connected], so I think the screen is gone.

I fear, as is the way with cutting edge 1982 technology, it hasn't  
survived the ravages of time as well as I might have hoped.

Still all is not lost, I shall be ripping the guts out and replacing  
it with a knackered Vaio running Linux - so there's hope yet!

here she is: http://www.shardcore.org/bnm/terminal.jpg

and here are her innards, for you circuit-board-pr0n-freaks out there: http://www.shardcore.org/bnm/guts.jpg



On 15 Feb 2008, at 12:34, Dave Phelan wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 5:42 PM, shardcore <shardcore at shardcore.org>  
> wrote:
>> I have a dumb terminal, pretty much like this one [http://www.vintage-computer.com/images/adm3a.jpg
>> ] which I'd like to use to display some ascii-art video. Obviously  
>> the
>> thing itself isn't up to doing much, but I'm wondering if there are
>> any hardware hackers who might like to help me wire-up the screen to
>> an external video source of some sort?
>
> So you want to hack an ascii terminal into a video screen in order to
> display art as ascii?
> Now that's Art.
>
>> My electronics skillz don't extend beyond tinkering with a 300-in-1
>> electronics kit from Tandy, and that was the best part of 30 years
>> ago...
>
> Assuming you have an RS232 interface on the terminal, then 30-year old
> soldering skills and the right plugs for each end will be plenty.
> You'll just need to make an RS232 null modem cable, which is as easy
> as networking gets.
>
> I'd be more concerned about the character resolution of the terminal.
> Is it 40 char wide or 80? If your ascii art is too wide, it'll
> probably line-wrap.
>
> Dave Ph
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