[GreenKeys] A portable Baudot terminal

[Jack]

Or, you could get a Model 31 and drag it around...the first "laptop".




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From: greenkeys-bounces at mailman.qth.net
[mailto:greenkeys-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Jim Haynes
Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2013 6:53 PM
To: epvgk at limpoc.com
Cc: greenkeys at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [GreenKeys] A portable Baudot terminal

Well, you see, I was hoping for something that would be trivially easy to
do.  Just grab this program off the net and run it and you've got Baudot at
the COM port.  If we were still in Windows 98 days or earlier it would work
that way.  While the program is ancient it provides just about everything
you would want for a "glass TTY".  And old laptops with COM ports are cheap.
Even replacement batteries are cheap the last time I bought one.  So you
could afford to dedicate a laptop to the purpose.

One could, with considerable effort, translate the program into C and make
it run on Linux and Windows.  One could, probably with considerably less
effort, make a partition on the hard drive for FreeDOS and install it, if
one knew exactly what to do.  One can, if you wanna, do what I did and put
it on a bootable floppy, requiring a floppy drive which would be a bit of a
bother.  One can, if he knows how, turn the bootable floppy into a bootable
CD ROM; but I don't know how.

jhhaynes at earthlink dot net
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